Queer Korea.

• Superior document: Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Series
• Author: Henry, Todd A.
• Place / Publishing House: Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2020.; Ã2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (369 pages)

Contributors of this volume offer interdisciplinary analyses of non-normative sexuality and gender nonconformity in Korea, extending individualized notions of queer neoliberalism beyond those set in Western queer theory.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Queer Korea: Toward a Field of Engagement / Todd A. Henry -- Part I. Unruly Subjects Under Colonial and Postcolonial Modernity -- 1. Ritual Specialists in Colonial Drag: Shamanic Interventions in 1920s Korea / Merose Hwang -- 2. Telling Queer Time in a Straight Empire: Yi Sang's "Wings" (1936) / John Whittier Treat -- 3. Problematizing Love: The Intimate Event and Same-Sex Love in Colonial Korea / Pei Jean Chen -- 4. Femininity under the Wartime System and the Symptomacity of Female Same-Sex Love / Shin-ae Ha (Translated by Kyunghee Eo) -- 5. A Female-Dressed Man Sings a National Epic: The Film Male Kisaeng and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality in 1960s South Korea / Chung-kang Kim -- 6. Queer Lives as Cautionary Tales: Female Homoeroticism and the Heteropatriarchal Imagination of Authoritarian South Korea / Todd A. Henry -- Part II. Citizens, Consumers, and Activists in Postauthoritarian Times -- 7. The Three Faces of South Korea's Male Homosexuality: Pogal, Iban, and Neoliberal Gay / John (Song Pae) Cho -- 8. Avoiding T'ibu (Obvious Butchness): Invisibility as a Survival Strategy among Young Queer Women in South Korea / Layoung Shin -- 9. Mobile Numbers and Gender Transitions: The Resident Registration System, the Nation-State, and Trans/gender Identities / Ruin (Translated by Max Balhorn) -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.