Sleuth Cities
East L.A., Seoul, and Military Mysteries in Martin Limón’s Slicky Boys and The Wandering Ghost
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12469647 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joo Ok Kim (0000-0002-9945-711X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 199-228 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jaas.2014.0015 |
| OpenAlex | W2025205065 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
In this article I explore cultural representations of Chicano/as in Korea, specifically focusing on Martin Limón’s numerous portrayals of an impoverished East L.A. as a gritty California counterpart to the desperate, at times overtly racist military district of Itaewon, located in Seoul. I also explore the genre of this mystery series as an aperture into racism, gendered exploitation, militarization, and expansion of U.S. frontiers from California across the Pacific to Korea. I argue that Limón'snovel binds together East L.A. and Itaewon as interconnected sites of war, poverty, gender and racial exploitation that inspire a critique of state power
Geography · Militarization · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Power (physics · Racism · Sociology · State (computer science · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Gender Studies · History
| Highly cited | No |
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