{"product_id":"warring-genealogies-9781439920572","title":"Warring Genealogies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWarring Genealogies\u003c\/i\u003e examines the elaboration of kinships between Chicano\/a and Asian American cultural production, such as the 1954 proxy adoption of a Korean boy by Leavenworth prisoners. Joo Ok Kim considers white supremacist expressions of kinship—in prison magazines, memorials, U.S. military songbooks—as well as critiques of such expressions in Chicana\/o and Korean diasporic works to conceptualize racialized formations of kinship emerging from the Korean War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWarring Genealogies\u003c\/i\u003e unpacks writings by Rolando Hinojosa \u003ci\u003e(Korean Love Songs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Useless Servants) \u003c\/i\u003eand Luis Valdez \u003ci\u003e(I Don’t Have to Show You No Stinking Badges\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZoot Suit)\u003c\/i\u003e to show the counter-representations of the Korean War and the problematic depiction of the United States as a benevolent savior. Kim also analyzes Susan Choi’s \u003ci\u003eThe Foreign Student\u003c\/i\u003e as a novel that proposes alternative temporalities to dominant Korean War narratives. In addition,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eWarring Genealogies\u003ci\u003e offers a sophisticated analysis that compellingly demonstrates the broader significance of the Korean War as a crucible for a variety of U.S. Cold War concerns in the post–World War II era. Crucially, Kim’s juxtaposition and brilliant analysis of unlikely archival materials and cultural texts make an original and exceedingly important contribution to our understandings of the links between the Korean War and U.S. racial, carceral, and settler colonial formations. This is a rigorous and impressive interdisciplinary cultural study.”\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJodi Kim\u003c\/b\u003e, Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, and author of \u003ci\u003eSettler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“In recent years, we have seen the emergence of a vital nexus of works in Asian American and American Studies on the topic of the Korean War. \u003c\/i\u003eWarring Genealogies\u003ci\u003e makes a vital contribution to this field. Kim organizes her study around the problematic of kinship in illuminating and original ways, synthesizing and inventively finding points of connection among a number of significant approaches. What is most compelling is the archive Kim constructs: Not only are many of the objects she takes up themselves fascinating—the adoption of Bok Nam Om by white prisoners at Leavenworth, the Korean War historiography of the United Daughters of the Confederacy—but they are also placed in startling juxtaposition with more easily accessible cultural works like published histories and novels. The prolific scope of the theoretical and historiographical studies that Kim draws on here provides readers with a comprehensive awareness of the relevance of such fields and persuasively demonstrates how kinship functions as a conceptual through line among them as well.”\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDaniel Y. Kim\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of English and American Studies at Brown University, and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Korean War should not be forgotten. Kim’s work proves that the study of it is relevant to anyone interested in understanding the complex histories and current dynamics of globalized white supremacy, even as it demonstrates just how foundational it is to interrogate, through the lens of US empire, what we think we know.\"\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408321913175,"sku":"9781439920572","price":73.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439920572.jpg?v=1730502434","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/warring-genealogies-9781439920572","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}