Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Since the Korean War--the forgotten war--more than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women married GIs and moved to the United States. Through intellectual vigor and personal recollection, Haunting the Korean Diaspora explores the repressed history of emotional and physical violence between the United States and Korea and the unexamined reverberations of sexual relationships between Korean women and American soldiers.

Grace M. Cho exposes how Koreans in the United States have been profoundly affected by the forgotten war and uncovers the silences and secrets that still surround it, arguing that trauma memories have been passed unconsciously through a process psychoanalysts call transgenerational haunting. Tracing how such secrets have turned into ghosts, Cho investigates the mythic figure of the yanggongju, literally the Western princess, who provides sexual favors to American military personnel. She reveals how this figure haunts both the intimate realm of memory and public discourse, in which narratives of U.S. benevolence abroad and assimilation of immigrants at home go unchallenged. Memories of U.S. violence, Cho writes, threaten to undo these narratives--and so they have been rendered unspeakable.

At once political and deeply personal, Cho's wide-ranging and innovative analysis of U.S. neocolonialism and militarism under contemporary globalization brings forth a new way of understanding--and remembering--the impact of the Korean War.
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ISBN 13 9780486415871
ISBN 10 0486415872
Title Crime and Punishment
Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Series Thrift Editions
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Dover Publications Inc.
Year published 2003-03-28
Number of pages 480
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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