[KS] militarization and cultural impact on Korea

[Theodore Hughes]

Dear Anne,

In addition to Tobias's excellent suggestions, I would also recommend  
three other important works, two academic studies and, in my view, the  
best novel on Korea written in English: Seungsook Moon's  Militarized  
Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea (Duke University  
Press, 2005); Katharine Moon's Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution  
in U.S.-South Korea Relations (Columbia University Press, 1997); and  
Heinz Insu Fenkl's novel/auto-ethnography, Memories of My Ghost  
Brother (originally published in 1997 and now available from Bo-Leaf,  
2005).

Wishing you the best with your research,

Ted Hughes





Quoting Tobias Lehmann <Tobias53 at gmx.de>:

> It depends on your theoretical approach (poststructuralist?) but I   
> would recommend to examine the Minjung movement and how they have   
> confronted and reacted on the enormous cultural impact of the US   
> (Americanization) since the division of the peninsula, how it has   
> changed Korean people's mindset and which role the concept of   
> modernity and post-colonialism (Korean people's colonized   
> consciousness) played.  Look for example for Namhee Lee, Choi   
> Cuhungmoo or with a different approach Shin Gi-Wook.
>
> Good luck, Tobias
>
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:42:24 +0900
>> Von: Kent Allen Davy <kentdavy at gmail.com>
>> An: Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
>> Betreff: Re: [KS] militarization and cultural impact on Korea
>
>> One book at which to look would be Brazinki's "Nation Building in South
>> Korea", which contains a lot of information presented within a useful
>> interpretive frame about the creation of modern military institutions in
>> South Korea between 1945 and the early 1980s.
>>
>>
>> ____________________________________________________________
>> "The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding."
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>>
>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:40 AM, anne-marie morin-dion <
>> annemar_ at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >  Dear colleagues,
>> >
>> > I am writing a paper on "Militarization of the Korean peninsula,
>> > the cultural impact of the US presence in Korea and the transformation
>> of
>> > the territory". This paper is part of a project on "Contemporary
>> Violences"
>> > in Anthropology. Therefore, I would be looking for some informations,
>> books,
>> > articles on the subject, or something related to it.
>> >
>> > Thank you very much,
>> >
>> > Anne Morin
>> > Anthropology Department
>> > University of Montréal
>> >
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Theodore Hughes
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