Call for Papers – Trauma and Westernization: Embodied Exclusion in Korean/Korean American Women’s Literature (NeMLA Panel)
Shirley Geok-lin Lim claimed, “My Westernization took place in my body.” This panel seeks to theorize the female Korean American body as a racialized and excluded site–a biopolitical site for trauma and haunting. More specifically, we seek to investigate representations of Korean women’s bodies in Korean/Korean American women’s writing and how these representations come to … Read more