Broken motherhood, biopolitical victim, and transnational female hysteria in Japanese Pan-pan and Korean Yanggongju melodramas: cross-reading Hollywood motifs.

This article explores possible influences of Americanization on postwar Japanese and Korean melodramas by focusing on the tropes of sexually liberated and exploited women such as the Pan-pan and Yanggongju (prostitutes groomed for American soldiers in both Japan and Korea). In comparison with Hollyw...

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Published in:Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 452 - 470
Main Author: Ahn, Minhwa
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2019
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