DMZ Crossing
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DMZ Crossing

Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 27 Jan |Learn more

DMZ Crossing

Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border

About this book

The Korean demilitarized zone might be among the most heavily guarded places on earth, but it also provides passage for thousands of defectors, spies, political emissaries, war prisoners, activists, tourists, and others testing the limits of Korean division. This book focuses on a diverse selection of inter-Korean border crossers and the citizenship they acquire based on emotional affiliation rather than constitutional delineation. Using their physical bodies and emotions as optimal frontiers, these individuals resist the state's right to draw geopolitical borders and define their national identity.

Drawing on sources that range from North Korean documentary films, museum exhibitions, and theater productions to protester perspectives and interviews with South Korean officials and activists, this volume recasts the history of Korean division and draws a much more nuanced portrait of the region's Cold War legacies. The book ultimately helps readers conceive of the DMZ as a dynamic summation of personalized experiences rather than as a fixed site of historical significance.

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Table of contents

  1. CoverĀ 
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. ContentsĀ 
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Introduction: Contesting the Border, Redefining Citizenship
  9. 1. Imagined Border Crossers on Stage
  10. 2. Divided Screen, Divided Paths
  11. 3. Twice Crossing and the Price of Emotional Citizenship
  12. 4. Borders on Display: Museum Exhibitions
  13. 5. Nation and Nature Beyond the Borderland
  14. Notes
  15. Works Cited
  16. Index