Gendered Embodiment/Disembodiment in Korean/Korean American Literature, Film, TV (NeMLA)
Philadelphia, PA
Event: NeMLA
Korean/Korean American women writers and artists utilize representations of the Korean woman’s body to articulate narratives of trauma, memory, and historical discontinuities. This panel seeks to investigate these representations and consider how the Korean woman’s body serves as a site for the reproduction of the sexualized and gendered Korean/Korean American experience.
Further, as Korean and Korean American artists articulate trauma, memory, and historical discontinuities on the body, this panel seeks to investigate these representations and consider how these representations come to embody national identity, fidelity, disloyalty, and/or negotiate multiple affiliations and the movement between allegiances.
This panel will consider representations of Korea and Koreanness and ask:
How are Korean nationalism and national unity are complicated by gender and body politics?
How is the colonized and militarized Korean peninsula, historically and currently, represented in literary, film, and other cultural iterations?
How do gendered and racialized bodies serve as a site for the articulation of trauma?
How is the Korean female figure situated between Westernization/Americanization and Asian alliances?
How do all these negotiations impact citizenship and belonging?
How is the historical trauma of Korea impacted by the diasporic and immigrant experience?
How does the Korean woman’s immigrant experience complicate notions of home and national identity?
How does the Korean woman’s immigrant experience complicate a masculine nationalist discourse?
How did the regulation of Korean women’s bodies reveal the sexualized relationship between Korea and the US?
Please submit abstracts through the NeMLA portal: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/CFP
Jina Lee