Elaine H. Kim

Gender and Korean Nationalism

Dangerous Women

Asian Women United of California

Lilia V. Villanueva

Lilia Villanueva

Asian Women United of California Staff

Beacon Press (Boston).

Gathers poems, essays, and fiction by Asian American women

New Writing by Asian American Women

Making More Waves

Eui-Young Yu

The reflections of thirty Korean Americans present an overview of their history in the United States and the challenges of racial, class, and gender differences they face

Korean American Life Stories

East to America

Focuses on the experience of Asians in America from the immigrants of the 1840s to the present

An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context

Asian American Literature

Hyun Yi Kang

Distributed by Temple University Press for the Asian American Writers' Workshop. In this ground-breaking collection of poetry and fiction Korean American literary artists write from and about unexpected places-landscapes and mindscapes of alienation, obsession, conflict, and belonging. They attest to the tension between habitation within and movement across strange terrains, communities, and languages. Author note: Elaine H. Kim is Professor of Asian American Studies and Associate Dean of the Graduate Division at the University of California at Berkeley. She is co-author of Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Asian American Visual Art as well as Executive Producer of the video, Labor Woman (Asian Women United of California, 2002). Laura Hyun Yi Kang is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women.

New Korean American Writings

Echoes Upon Echoes

Margo Machida

Sharon Mizota

Pairing work by 24 contemporary Asian-American visual artists with responses provocatively drawn from cultural critics and other artists, this book explores themes of geographical movement, Asian sexuality, miscegenation, the loss of home, war, history, and memory.

Conversations on Asian American Art

Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes

Asian American Literature, an Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context

Chungmoo Choi

Dangerous Women enriches and diversifies the critique of colonial discourse by discussing and analyzing post-colonial challenges Korean and diasporic Korean women have faced and continue to face within the context of multiple gendered colonialisms and their legacies in Korea.

Dangerous Women addresses the themes of Korean nationalism and gender construction, as well as various issues related to the colonialization and decolonialization of the Korean nation. The contributors explore the troubled category of "woman," placing it in the specific context of a marginalized and colonized nation. But Korean women are not merely configured here as metaphors for an emasculated and infantilized "homeland;" they are also shown to be products of a problematic gender construction that originates in Korea, and extends even today to Korean communities beyond Asia. Representations of Korean women still attempt to confine them to the status of either mother or prostitute: Dangerous Women rectifies that construction, offering a feminist intervention that might recuperate womanhood.

Elaine H. Kim

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