Queer Korea is an urgent and critical addition to the Perverse Modernities series from Duke University Press. This is the first edited volume in the English language dedicated to the marginalized narratives of nonnormative sexuality and gender nonconformity on the Korean Peninsula in and beyond the twentieth century, bringing into conversation cultural historians, scholars of film and literature, anthropologists, and queer/trans activist-scholars from North America and East Asia.
The book began as a live event held in the fall of 2014 at the University of California, San Diego. “Remembering Queer Korea” encompassed an international academic conference, film festival, and art exhibition. While this event featured scholars, filmmakers, and visual artists alike, the Queer Korea volume is in large part an academic compilation that nonetheless continues in the spirit of interdisciplinary dialogues among the scholar-activists working in English and Korean languages. In calling them scholar-activists I acknowledge the academic activism performed...
