...Steven Belletto From a Cold War literary and cultural studies perspective, the Korean War (1950–1953) is a distinctive moment in US cultural history. This essay proposes that there are two broad phases of Korean War literature: the first phase is work written in the 1950s and early 1960s generally...

...Joseph Darda Within the United States, the Korean War has never attracted the memory culture that other twentieth-century wars do. Korea is remembered only for not being remembered, as the “forgotten war.” And yet, as commentators continue to characterize the war on terror as an unparalleled era...

...Kodai Abe Abstract American racial politics during the long Korean War formed what this essay terms Afro-Asian antagonism , a racial hate between African Americans and Asians (and Asian Americans). When the Truman administration issued Executive Order 9981 and proclaimed its commitment to military...

... Expatriate Fiction,” 739–68. Belletto, Steven. “The Korean War, the Cold War, and the American Novel,” 51–77. Bentley, Nancy. Review: Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction by Kate Marshall; Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media by Jessica Pressman; Virtual Modernism: Writing...

... implicitly invoke the concept of the differend to explore the American Cold War imaginary. In Cold War Friendships , Josephine Nock-Hee Park illustrates how the friendly forms a differend at the site where Asian Americans are constructed in representations of the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The friendly...

... basic way be mechanistic rather than radically free emerges as a horror for Americans in the postwar moment, from its overlooked origins in Korean War–era propaganda to contemporary figurations of the “American Taliban,” John Walker Lindh. “The specter of unfreedom,” Selisker explains...

...- ing World War II militarism, Cold War politics, and the Korean War and that through her poetry and her silences Bishop challenged the official narratives. 6815 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet 198 of 252 Roman identifies a ‘‘rhetorical interrogation of Fascism...

... and Output Devices .” In The Moore School Lectures: Volume 9 , edited by Campbell-Kelly Martin and Williams Michael R. , 393 – 423 . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Endicott Stephen L. 1979 . “ Germ Warfare and ‘Plausible Denial’: The Korean War, 1952–1953 .” Modern China 5...

... point. As a result, points multiply within paragraphs, detracting from the force of the book’s argument. Along theoretical lines, the Korean War, another ‘‘lost war is not mentioned. The book would have...

..., and essays that compose Bitter Fruit aredrawnfromperiodicalsthat include Negro Digest,theCrisis, Opportunity, and Negro Story. Retrieving Bones:Stories and Poems of the Korean War . Ed. W. D. Ehrhart and Philip K...

... and ambivalently across national and racial differences in Asia. As the fifth installment of Hinojosa’s famous Klail City Death Trip series, Korean Love Songs recounts its central protagonist’s experiences of the Korean War, thereby estab- lishing a relationship between this conflict and race problems along...

... York’’ (OA, 217). This reference to ‘‘the world situation’’ and the allusions to World War II I’ve already mentioned are among Bishop’s few references to international politics during these years. The Korean War, the U.S...

.... As many scholars in Asian American studies have pointed out, the separations of Asia and America are entangled with anti-immigrant racial formations that were violently equipped and remade during the Philippine-American War, World War II, and the Cold War, which included the Korean War and the Vietnam War...

... . “ The Comfort Women: Colonialism, War, and Sex ” (special issue). positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 5 , no. 1 . Chuh Kandice . 2003a . “ Discomforting Knowledge, or Korean ‘Comfort Women’ and Asian Americanist Critical Practice .” Journal of Asian American Studies 6 , no. 1 : 5 – 23...

.... Collectively, the letters document the writing and publication of Warren’s All the King’s Men along with his col- laboration with producer Robert Rossen on the book’s film. The volume offers glimpses into Warren’s thoughts on major events of the twentieth century, including World War II and the Korean War...

... of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879–1924 . By Cristina Stanciu . New Haven, CT : Yale Univ. Press . 2023 . x, 370 pp. Cloth, $45.00 ; e-book, $45.00 . Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions . By David S. Roh...

... the nation-state. David Roh ( 2021 : 22–23) points out the transpacific implications of this scene, noting that during World War II “Koreans, as colonial subjects [of Japan], were technically Japanese citizens,” and thus the Korean man’s lapel pin operates as “both a declaration against racial persecution...

...”: Severance is told from the perspective of a second-generation Chinese American woman in the Obama-era knowledge economy, while Minari ’s protagonist is a first-generation Korean immigrant who aspires to own his own farm in Reagan-era Arkansas. Yet, when paired together, these aesthetic works demonstrate...

... that Myung Mi Kim’s “fractured and reconstituted Korean and English syntax is embedded in the violence of war and displacement” and his argument that “the Kashmiri American poet Agha Shahid Ali” critiques “contrasting versions of sovereignty and varieties of belief” by adapting “the Urdu ghazal form” (66...

.... While extending the geographical boundaries to include Pacific Islanders and writers of Korean, Hawaiian, and Samoan descent, the editor highlighted his method for classifying descent: “Racially classified as Malayans instead of Mongolians, and culturally influenced by Spain . . . the Filipinos...