Looking beyond the Frame
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4906980 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessie Kindig |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 2016 |
| Issue | 126 |
| Pages | 147-158 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radical History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01636545-3594493 |
| OpenAlex | W2559646374 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Reconsidering the US military presence in East Asia in the post-World War II period as a "violent embrace," this article argues that soldiers' expectations of East Asia as an erotic paradise combined with US military policies to legitimate and normalize sexual access to Asian women, creating an unequal climate of gendered power relations that comprised dating, sex work, and frequent rape. This article considers how the violent embrace shaped historical narratives of US power in East Asia, obscuring both imperial power and systemic sexual violence in military archives and later historians' accounts. Through a close reading of soldiers' snapshot photographs from the Korean War, this essay illustrates how the violent embrace came to frame wartime as a kind of pleasure, fun, or benevolence, only hinting at the scale of coercion and violence that lay outside the photograph's borders
Art · China · East Asia · Literature · Narrative · Pleasure · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State of exception · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |