lives of first-generation Korean women in Japan
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kim, Jackie J.
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- O AZ 1A 2005
- Thesaurus
- migratie, kolonialisme, discriminatie, Koreaans, Japan, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Ten first-generation Korean women who migrated to Japan during Korea's colonial period tell their compelling stories in Hidden Treasures. Powerful narratives of migration, minority life, gender discrimination, and the often-difficult social relations between Korean immigrants and the Japanese are included, written in the women's own words. The women in this volume participated in tumultuous times in the modern history of Korea and Japan, involving physical, psychological, geographic, and cultural displacements. These women transformed themselves in multiple ways: one from colonial subject to diasporic subject, another from a young and naive virgin bride to a self-made matriarch.