Kim Eunjung Kim

Curative Violence (eBook, PDF)

Rehabilitating Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Korea

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Produktbeschreibung

In Curative Violence Eunjung Kim examines what the social and material investment in curing illnesses and disabilities tells us about the relationship between disability and Korean nationalism. Kim uses the concept of curative violence to question the representation of cure as a universal good and to understand how nonmedical and medical cures come with violent effects that are not only symbolic but also physical. Writing disability theory in a transnational context, Kim tracks the shifts from the 1930s to the present in the ways that disabled bodies and narratives of cure have been represented in Korean folktales, novels, visual culture, media accounts, policies, and activism. Whether analyzing eugenics, the management of Hansen's disease, discourses on disabled people's sexuality, violence against disabled women, or rethinking the use of disabled people as a metaphor for life under Japanese colonial rule or under the U.S. military occupation, Kim shows how the possibility of life with disability that is free from violence depends on the creation of a space and time where cure is seen as a negotiation rather than a necessity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373513
• Artikelnr.: 54789094

Autorenporträt

Eunjung Kim

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Folded Time and the Presence of Disability  1
1. Unmothering Disability  42
2. Cure by Proxy  81
3. Violence as a Way of Loving  122
4. Uninhabiting Family  166
5. Curing Virginity  197
Conclusion. How to Inhabit the Time Machine with Disability  323
Notes  235
Bibliography  269
Index  285