DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border

DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border

by Suk-Young Kim
DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border

DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border

by Suk-Young Kim

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Overview

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 theater productions to protester perspectives and interviews with South Korean officials and activists, this volume recasts the history of Korean division and draws a much more nuanced portrait of the region's Cold War legacies. The book ultimately helps readers conceive of the DMZ as a dynamic summation of personalized experiences rather than as a fixed site of historical significance.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780231164825
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 03/18/2014
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Contesting the Border
1. Imagined Border Crossers on Stage
2. Divided Screen, Divided Paths
3. Twice Crossing and the Price of Emotional Citizenship
4. Borders on Display: Museum Exhibitions
5. Nation and Nature Beyond the Borderland
Notes
Works Cited
Index

What People are Saying About This

Theodore Hughes

DMZ Crossing will have a profound impact not only on the ways in which we approach the historical significance of the DMZ, the multilayered meanings produced by acts of border crossing, and the issue of national division in Korea, but also on our understanding of border crossing as sociocultural performance and its relations to the idea of affective and statist citizenship globally.

From the Publisher

DMZ Crossing will have a profound impact not only on the ways we approach the historical significance of the Korean demilitarized zone, the multilayered meanings produced by acts of border crossing, and the issue of national division in Korea but also on our understanding of border crossing as sociocultural performance and its relation to the idea of affective and statist citizenship globally.

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