...Min Young Godley Abstract The awarding of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize to Deborah Smith’s English translation of The Vegetarian brought global recognition to emergent Korean literature, but domestically it has sparked outrage among numerous Korean scholars who believe the literal...

...Silvia Schultermandl Abstract In Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman (1997), the Korean American protagonist reconciles with her Korean heritage through the act of spreading her mother's ashes. This essay looks at Keller's use of a “language of the body” that protests against rape and other forms...

..., Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Brian, Kristi. 2012. Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Briggs, Laura. 2012. Somebody's Children: The Politics...

..., and the Women's Studies Curriculum." FRANCES KIM RUSSELL is currently a Master's student in East Asian Studies at Stanford University, with a focus on Korean studies. For her ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 269 thesis, she is conducting research on mixed race Korean identity. Her writing has been previously published...

...Paula J. Giddings Copyright © 2016 Smith College 2016 PAULA J. GIDDINGS Editor's Introduction 13.2 Citizenship, belonging, solidarity. These are the themes that wind through this issue of Meridians and emerge in an array of cultural contexts: IndoCaribbean, African American, Korean, Jamaican...

..., "Compositional Struggles: Re-membering Korean/ American Women," Kang provides a sustained and engaged reading of works by Korean American and Canadian women artists: filmmaker and conceptual artist Theresa Hak-Kyung Cha, poet Myung Mi Kim, and multimedia artist Jin-me Yoon. These creative texts, which address...

... Korean adoptees, the Chinese adoptee literature is virtually nonexistent at this point due to the young age of the adoptees (although it is starting to develop). Thus most of what we know about the outcomes of Asian American adoptions thus far comes from Korean experiences spanning the past twenty years...

... (Senegalese twists, Bantu knots, etc.) in markets small and large. This form of"brand" recognition, through national and ethnic markers, can be likened to that of middleman minorities-such as Jews, Koreans, Greeks, Indians, and Arabs-who have historically been linked with their trades (e.g., dry cleaners...

..., as seen in the Suzie Wong character of the 1960 film. By the early 1960s, the Korean and Vietnam wars had resulted in scores of Asian women being exploited sexually by the American GIs stationed in those countries. Despite a somewhat more humane portrayal in films like Sayonara (1957), Asian women...

... of whiteness to create new imperial frontiers or Orients. Benefiting from their economic trade with the US, South Korean corporations, for example, "settle" for a short while in Mexico, bringing in American-influenced industrialization models interlaced with "Confucian" Asian, heteropatriarchal styles of shop...

... character of the 1960 film. Bythe early 1960s, the Korean and Vietnam wars had resulted in scores of Asian women being exploited sexually by the American Gls stationed in those countries. Despite a somewhat more humane portrayal in films like Sayonara(1957),Asian women remained coquettish, pretty dolls...

... . Katznelson Ira . 2006 . When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America . New York : W. W. Norton . Kim Suzy . 2019 . “ The Origins of Cold War Feminism during the Korean War .” Gender and History 31 , no. 2 : 460 – 79...

... Middle East, Nepali women in India, Brazilian women in Suriname, or Korean and Chinese women serving men in the Imperial Japanese army in the 1940s also poses questions about the significance of cultural/racial/ethnic difference between client and sex worker in constructions of prostitution. 3. According...

.... Immigration Service all implicate the effects ofU.S. cultural hegemony and economic policies on people abroad. To expand its political and economic power in Asia, not only did the United States launch military expeditions during the Vietnam War and Korean War, but it has also attempted to maximize the profits...

... of Chinese and Korean babies by U.S. white women. This burgeoning phenomenon has been discussed in feminist studies in ways that attend to the development and acclimation of these baby girls and/ or the social and human rights politics in China (Grice 2005; Greenhalgh and Li 1995). An interrogation...

... of Native Hawaiians, who are not seen as an important plantation labor constituency compared to Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Portuguese, and Puerto Rican laborers. More broadly, these histories have ignored settler colonialism in Hawaiʻi by taking for granted that Hawaiʻi is, and was always destined...

... to Privilege: Seduction and Rejection in the Subordination of White Women and Women of Color." Signs14, no. 4. Kim, Elaine H. 1998. "Dangerous Women: Korean Immigrant Women in the United States." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Seattle, Washington, 19 November. Martin...

... local, light-skinned, Indonesian women, ads featured international models such as Choi Ji Woo (a South Korean actress/celebrity) advertising the France-based “DiorSnow Pure White”; Sammi Cheng (a Hong Kong actress/singer) modeling for Japanese SK-II’s “Whitening Source Skin Brightener”; Michele Reis...

... featured local, light-skinned, Indonesian women, ads featured international models such as Choi Ji Woo (a South Korean actress/celebrity) advertising the France-based "DiorSnow Pure White"; Sammi Cheng (a Hong Kong actress/singer) modeling for Japanese SK-II's "Whitening Source Skin Brightener"; Michele...