A Comparison of Fox Girl and The Bridle: Gender/Nation, Colonialism/Postcolonialism
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This paper explores how the Korean sex workers in U.S. military camptowns are represented in a Korean American Novel, Fox Girl (2002) by Nora Okja Keller, and a Korean novel, The Bridle (1988) by Jung-Mo Yoon, in terms of gender identity and national consciousness. In The Bridle, Jung-In has finally transformed her social position from sex worker to teacher's wife. Her transformation is not active but passive, influenced by Sang-Woo's decision for their marriage. Her national consciousness is stronger than her gender identity. Her experience of body and sexuality is not explicitly described owing to the lack of social discourse in 1980s Korea. The neocolonial condition of Jung-In and Korea does not change at all through the novel. By way of contrast, in Fox Girl, Hyun Jin has actively transformed her dead-end living circumstances as a Korean sex worker under neocolonial conditions into the possibility of the postcolonial conditions in Hawaii as a transnational sexual laborer in the global capitalist system. Her gender identity as a sex worker and adoptive mother is much stronger than her national consciousness as an alternative diaspora in Kijich'on. In short, thanks to both women writers' socio-historical consciousness, Fox Girl and The Bridle have shown us the neocolonial condition of Korean sex workers and the mixed-blood children in Kijich'on from the women's perspective.
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This paper explores how the Korean sex workers in U.S. military camptowns are represented in a Korean American Novel, Fox Girl (2002) by Nora Okja Keller, and a Korean novel, The Bridle (1988) by Jung-Mo Yoon, in terms of gender identity and national consciousness. In The Bridle, Jung-In has finally transformed her social position from sex worker to teacher's wife. Her transformation is not active but passive, influenced by Sang-Woo's decision for their marriage. Her national consciousness is stronger than her gender identity. Her experience of body and sexuality is not explicitly described owing to the lack of social discourse in 1980s Korea. The neocolonial condition of Jung-In and Korea does not change at all through the novel. By way of contrast, in Fox Girl, Hyun Jin has actively transformed her dead-end living circumstances as a Korean sex worker under neocolonial conditions into the possibility of the postcolonial conditions in Hawaii as a transnational sexual laborer in the global capitalist system. Her gender identity as a sex worker and adoptive mother is much stronger than her national consciousness as an alternative diaspora in Kijich'on. In short, thanks to both women writers' socio-historical consciousness, Fox Girl and The Bridle have shown us the neocolonial condition of Korean sex workers and the mixed-blood children in Kijich'on from the women's perspective.
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