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Dys‐appearing Tongues and Bodily Memories: The Aging of First‐Generation Resident Koreans in Japan
Author(s) -
Lee Sandra SooJin
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
ethos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.783
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1548-1352
pISSN - 0091-2131
DOI - 10.1525/eth.2000.28.2.198
Subject(s) - subjectivity , habitus , negotiation , ideology , identity (music) , colonialism , sociology , consciousness , gender studies , the symbolic , psychology , social psychology , aesthetics , psychoanalysis , history , anthropology , epistemology , political science , social science , ethnography , politics , philosophy , archaeology , neuroscience , law
According to Bourdieu's thesis on habitus, codes of behavior are "memorized" and incorporated by the body, becoming the repertoire of culturally appropriated bodily behaviors.Building on this model, immigrant subjectivity with respect to aging is examined through the concept of bodily memory. I focus here on the negotiation of colonial history, diasporic consciousness, and cultural practice by first‐generation resident Koreans of Japan. This paper examines how the bartering of symbolic meanings in the consumption of Korean food reflects postcolonial negotiations of ideologies of difference and how the body acts as a critical site of struggle in the performance of identity.