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DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border
Suk-Young Kim
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Description for DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 29 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
The Korean demilitarized zone might be among the most heavily guarded places on earth, but it also provides passage for thousands of defectors, spies, political emissaries, war prisoners, activists, tourists, and others testing the limits of Korean division. This book focuses on a diverse selection of inter-Korean border crossers and the citizenship they acquire based on emotional affiliation rather than constitutional delineation. Using their physical bodies and emotions as optimal frontiers, these individuals resist the state's right to draw geopolitical borders and define their national identity. Drawing on sources that range from North Korean documentary films, museum exhibitions, and ... Read more
The Korean demilitarized zone might be among the most heavily guarded places on earth, but it also provides passage for thousands of defectors, spies, political emissaries, war prisoners, activists, tourists, and others testing the limits of Korean division. This book focuses on a diverse selection of inter-Korean border crossers and the citizenship they acquire based on emotional affiliation rather than constitutional delineation. Using their physical bodies and emotions as optimal frontiers, these individuals resist the state's right to draw geopolitical borders and define their national identity. Drawing on sources that range from North Korean documentary films, museum exhibitions, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
453g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231164825
SKU
V9780231164825
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About Suk-Young Kim
Suk-Young Kim is a professor of theater and East Asian studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her book Illusive Utopia addresses North Korean state propaganda and rituals, and she is the coauthor of Long Road Home, which documents the oral history of a North Korean labor camp survivor.
Reviews for DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border
In this beautifully written and richly documented study, Suk-Young Kim draws on a broad range of sources including memoirs, literature, films, personal interviews, and stage plays, astutely blending ethnography with performance studies and offering fascinating insights into the complex makeup of border crossers, ranging from defectors to tourists, prisoners of war, and politicians. DMZ Crossing is a pathbreaking work whose ... Read more