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positions (1997) 5 (2): 325–355.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Helen Heran Jun Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Contingent Nationalisms: Renegotiating Borders in Korean and Korean American
Women’s Oppositional Struggles
Helen Heran Jun
The emergence of a Korean American nationalist discourse has been...
Journal Article
positions (1997) 5 (2): 357–389.
Published: 01 May 1997
...Min-Jung Kim Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Moments of Danger in the (Dis)continuous Relation of Korean Nationalism and
Korean American Nationalism
Min-Jung Kim
During the Japanese annexation of Korea (1910- 1945), many Korean...
Journal Article
positions (1999) 7 (3): 667–696.
Published: 01 August 1999
...Kyeyoung Park Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 ”I Am Floating in the Air”: Creation of a Korean Transnational Space
among Korean-Latino American Remigrants
Kyeyoung Park
On 9 April 1995 I was watching the Korean-language TV program...
Journal Article
positions (2015) 23 (4): 807–835.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Jodi Kim Through an analysis of two recent films, Deann Borshay Liem's In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee (2010) and Jane Jin Kaisen's The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger (2010), this essay argues that Korean transnational adoption is constituted by militarized and gendered diasporas that mark...
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positions (2022) 30 (2): 377–407.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Carolyn Areum Choi Abstract The pursuit of overseas English language education by South Korean youth has resulted in a hierarchy of educational destinations, with migrants studying English in the Global North attaining higher cultural capital compared to those learning English in the Global South...
Journal Article
positions (2011) 19 (1): 159–191.
Published: 01 February 2011
.... North Korean leaders have issued numerous fashion statements with the intention to promote fashion as a national project meant to groom ideal corporeality. While many other socialist regimes have glorified masculine clothing as a preferred means to represent revolutionized women, North Korean fashion...
Journal Article
positions (2023) 31 (4): 863–892.
Published: 01 November 2023
... displays were particularly striking as they palpably demonstrated to visitors the brutal nature of colonial violence through a series of horrendous images of tortured and murdered Koreans. Across the globe, this use of exhibition as a means to “come to terms with the colonial past” has become a recurring...
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 516–546.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Mun Young Cho How do recent transnational encounters in East Asia help us explore the condition of poverty amidst increasingly unpredictable global and national political economy? Against a backdrop of East Asian “postmiracle” times, this article sheds light on the precarity of South Korean...
Journal Article
positions (2020) 28 (4): 701–727.
Published: 01 November 2020
...We Jung Yi This article examines Cold War icons transfigured in new media ecology by looking at the South Korean webtoon (web cartoon) Secretly, Greatly . In featuring the superfluous existence of kanch’ŏp (North Korean spies) dispatched to the South, the graphic narrative interweaves the legacy...
Journal Article
positions (1993) 1 (3): 553–580.
Published: 01 August 1993
...Paik Nak-chung Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 553
Document
The Idea of a Korean National literature Then and Now
Paik Nak-chung
Paik Nak-chung is one...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 619–631.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Leonard Rifas US comic books published about the Korean War during that conflict represented the war as an opportunity for US boys to become men through bloody, hand-to-hand combat. Korean War comic book representations of Asian men and women fell into a few basic types. The messages in US war...
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positions (2015) 23 (4): 665–694.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Daniel Y. Kim This essay reads the work of Rolando Hinojosa for the ways in which it invites a consideration of the two wars that the United States fought in the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—the US-Mexico War and the Korean War, respectively—as part of a continuous history of US...
Journal Article
positions (2019) 27 (2): 397–420.
Published: 01 May 2019
... of their given medium. South Korean radio used the documentary turn in the 1960s and 1970s as a way of responding to the growing repressive regime and technological innovations. These documentaries specifically used dramatization to reenact truth and reality. Therefore, docudramas can be heard as a site...
Journal Article
positions (1997) 5 (1): 282–284.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Yong Soon Min; Sasha Y. Lee Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Portfolio
Artwork by former comfort women
Kang T6k- ky6ng
Kim Sun-d6k
Artwork by Jupanese artists
Tomiyama Taeko
Shimada Yoshiko
Artwork by Korean American artists
Yong Soon Min...
Journal Article
positions (1997) 5 (1): 51–72.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Hyunah Yang Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Revisiting the Issue of Korean “Military Comfort Women“: The Question of Truth
and Positionality
Hyunah Yang
Obiective Truth and Marginalization of the Women
In early 1992, when the issue of Korean...
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positions (2024) 32 (2): 233–258.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Inhye Han Abstract This article is the first study that excavates a Korean writer's Chinese‐language play based on Taiwanese farmers’ real‐life events and that identifies its author as playwright, filmmaker, and novelist Li Kyŏngson. During his Shanghai years (1929–32), Li encountered Japanese...
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positions (2009) 17 (3): 465–487.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Ken C. Kawashima This article reconsiders the concept of the state apparatus by looking at the micropolitics and history surrounding the largest “Korean welfare organization” in interwar Japan, the Sôaikai ( ), or Mutual Love Association. As a welfare organization of Korean workers in Japan...
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positions (2019) 27 (3): 437–468.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Jiyoung Suh This article examines the presence of Korean housemaids who worked for Japanese settlers in colonial Korea, 1910–45, and its connection to the urban landscape in the colony. It provides a historical investigation of the Korean housemaids who emerged among female workers in the urban...
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positions (2006) 14 (2): 405–425.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Yoon-shik Kim Duke University Press 2006 Translated by Yoon Sun Yang KAPF Literature in Modern Korean Literary History
Yoon-shik Kim
The Modern as Both Universality and Particularity
In this essay, I will introduce a model that I have developed for explain...
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positions (2006) 14 (2): 495–525.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Emiko Kida Duke University Press 2006 Translated by Brian Bergstrom Japanese-Korean Exchange within the Proletarian Visual Arts Movement
Emiko Kida
The proletarian arts movement grew active as the contradictions inherent
in the capitalist...
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