QUEER KOREA

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Contents: Acknowledgments= vii Introduction Queer Korea: Toward a Field of Engagement Todd A. Henry = 1 PART I UNRULY SUBJECTS UNDER COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL MODERNITY 1. Ritual Specialists in Colonial Drag: Shamanic Interventions in 1920s Korea_Merose Hwang = 55 2. Telling Queer Time in a Straight Empire: Yi Sang’s “Wings” (1936)_John Whittier Treat = 90 3. Problematizing Love: The Intimate Event and Same-Sex Love in Colonial Korea_Pei Jean Chen = 117 4. Femininity under the Wartime System and the Symptomacity of Female Same-Sex Love_Shin-ae Ha(Translated by Kyunghee Eo) = 146 5. A Female-Dressed Man Sings a National Epic: The Film Male Kisaeng and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality in 1960s South Korea_Chung-kang Kim = 175 6. Queer Lives as Cautionary Tales: Female Homoeroticism and the Heteropatriarchal Imagination of Authoritarian South Korea_Todd A. Henry = 205 PART II CITIZENS, CONSUMERS, AND ACTIVISTS IN POSTAUTHORITARIAN TIMES 7. The Three Faces of South Korea’s Male Homosexuality: Pogal, Iban, and Neoliberal Gay_John (Song Pae) Cho = 263 8. Avoiding T’ibu (Obvious Butchness): Invisibility as a Survival Strategy among Young Queer Women in South Korea_Layoung Shin = 295 9. Mobile Numbers and Gender Transitions: The Resident Registration System, the Nation-State, and Trans/gender Identities Ruin(Translated by Max Balhorn) = 323 Contributors = 343 Index = 345

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