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The Korean War, often invoked in American culture as "the forgotten war," remains ongoing. Though active fighting only occurred between 1950 and 1953, the signing of an armistice resulted in an infamous stalemate and the construction of the Korean Peninsula's Demilitarized Zone. Minor Salvage reads early Korean American life writings in order to explore the admittedly partial ways in which those made precarious by war seek to rebuild their lives. The titular phrase "minor salvage," draws on different valences of the word salvage which, while initially associated with naval recovery efforts, can also be used to describe the rescue of waste material. Spurred by the stories told and retold to him by his parents Soon Ho and Yunpyo, Sohn enacts minor salvage by reading overlooked early Korean American life writings penned by Induk Pahk, Taiwon Koh, Joseph Anthony, and Kim Yong-ik alongside a later generation of life writings authored by Sunny Che and K. Connie Kang. In the context of the Korean War, Sohn argues, life writings take on a crucial political orientation precisely because of the fragility attached to refugees, civilians, children, women, and divided family members. To depict the possibility of life is to acknowledge simultaneously the threat of death, violence, and brutality, and in this regard, such life writings are part of a longer genealogy in which marginalized communities find representational power through the creative process.
Korean War, 1950-1953. --- War and literature --- Korean Americans --- Korean American literature --- History and criticism. --- 1900-1999 --- United States.
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"Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late nineteenth century, and the long political struggles against the country's indigenous popular religious heritage during the colonial and postcolonial eras. The book brings an anthropology of religion into the field of Cold War history. In particular, it investigates how Korea's shamanism has assimilated symbolic properties of American power into its realm of ritual efficacy in the form of the spirit of General Douglas MacArthur. The book considers this process in dialog with the work of Yim Suk-jay, a prominent Korean anthropologist who saw that a radically cosmopolitan and democratic world vision is embedded in Korea's enduring shamanism tradition"--
Religion and politics --- Shamanism --- United States. --- Korea. --- United States --- Korea --- Influence. --- Religion --- American Power. --- Cold War. --- Colonialism. --- Evangelicalism. --- Korean-American Relations. --- Religion. --- Shamanism.
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This restored edition reflects Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s original vision and intentions for Dictee, a foundational and unparalleled text of modern Asian American literature. Dictee is the best-known work of the multidisciplinary Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. This restored edition, produced in partnership with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), reflects Cha’s original vision for the book. Featuring the original cover and high-quality reproductions of the interior layout as Cha intended them, this version of Dictee faithfully renders the book as an art object in its authentic form. A formative text of modern Asian American literature, Dictee is a dynamic autobiography that tells the story of several women: the Korean revolutionary Yu Guan Soon, Joan of Arc, Demeter and Persephone, Cha’s mother Hyung Soon Huo (a Korean born in Manchuria to first-generation Korean exiles), and Cha herself. Cha’s work manifests in nine parts structured around the Greek Muses. Deploying a variety of texts, documents, images, and forms of address and inquiry, Cha links these women’s stories to explore the trauma of dislocation and the fragmentation of memory it causes. The result is an enduringly powerful, beautiful, unparalleled work.
Women --- Loss (Psychology) --- Suffering --- Poetry. --- Poetry. --- ancient greece. --- asian american. --- asian history. --- asian. --- autobiography. --- biographical. --- coming of age. --- demeter. --- exile. --- female suffering. --- greek muses. --- growing up. --- hard times. --- korea. --- korean american. --- korean exile. --- korean. --- life story. --- mother daughter. --- motherhood. --- oppression. --- persephone. --- politics. --- real life. --- real world. --- realistic. --- revolutionary. --- strong women. --- suffering. --- true story. --- womens issues. --- womens stories.
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"Every year thousands of foreign-born Filipino and Indian nurses immigrate to the United States. Despite being well trained and desperately needed, they enter the country at a time, not unlike the past, when the American social and political climate is once again increasingly unwelcoming to them as immigrants. Drawing on rich ethnographic and survey data, collected over a four-year period, this study explores the role Catholicism plays in shaping the professional and community lives of foreign-born Filipino and Indian American nurses in the face of these challenges, while working at a Veterans hospital. Their stories provide unique insights into the often-unseen roles race, religion and gender play in the daily lives of new immigrants employed in American healthcare. In many ways, these nurses find themselves foreign in more ways than just their nativity. Seeing nursing as a religious calling, they care for their patients, both at the hospital and in the wider community, with a sense of divine purpose but must also confront the cultural tensions and disconnects between how they were raised and trained in another country and the legal separation of church and state. How they cope with and engage these tensions and disconnects plays an important role in not only shaping how they see themselves as Catholic nurses but their place in the new American story"--
Hospitals, Veterans --- Catholicism --- Xenophobia --- Racism --- Asian Americans --- Nurse-Patient Relations --- Nurses, International --- Nurses, Foreign --- Foreign Nurse --- Foreign Nurses --- International Nurse --- International Nurses --- Nurse, Foreign --- Nurse, International --- Nurse Patient Relations --- Nurse Patient Relationship --- Nurse Patient Relationships --- Nurse-Patient Relation --- Patient Relations, Nurse --- Patient Relationship, Nurse --- Patient Relationships, Nurse --- Relations, Nurse Patient --- Relations, Nurse-Patient --- Relationship, Nurse Patient --- Relationships, Nurse Patient --- Covert Racism --- Racial Bias --- Racial Discrimination --- Racial Prejudice --- Everyday Racism --- Bias, Racial --- Discrimination, Racial --- Discriminations, Racial --- Prejudice, Racial --- Prejudices, Racial --- Racial Discriminations --- Racial Prejudices --- Racism, Covert --- Racism, Everyday --- Apartheid --- Antiracism --- Fear of Strangers --- Phobia, Strangers --- Strangers Phobia --- Roman Catholic Ethics --- Roman Catholicism --- Roman Catholics --- Catholic, Roman --- Catholicism, Roman --- Catholics, Roman --- Ethic, Roman Catholic --- Ethics, Roman Catholic --- Roman Catholic --- Roman Catholic Ethic --- Veterans Hospitals --- Hospital, Veterans --- Veterans Hospital --- Asian Indian Americans --- Cambodian Americans --- Filipino Americans --- Hmong Americans --- Vietnamese Americans --- Chinese Americans --- Japanese Americans --- Korean Americans --- American, Cambodian --- American, Korean --- American, Vietnamese --- Americans, Asian --- Americans, Cambodian --- Americans, Chinese --- Americans, Filipino --- Americans, Hmong --- Americans, Japanese --- Americans, Korean --- Americans, Vietnamese --- Asian American --- Asian Indian American --- Asians --- Cambodian American --- Chinese American --- Filipino American --- Hmong American --- Indian American, Asian --- Japanese American --- Korean American --- Vietnamese American --- United States --- Filipino, Filipina, Indian, immigrant, migrant, nurse, nursing, nurses, veterans hospital, health, health care, Asians, Asian Americans, medicine, race, nationality, religion, religious calling, Catholic, American, Filipino American, Filipina American, Indian American, healthcare, sociology, ethnography, foreign.
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