Sign in
An American Concubine in Old Korea
Journal article   Peer reviewed

An American Concubine in Old Korea

Hyaeweol Choi
Frontiers : a journal of women studies, Vol.25(3), pp.134-161
09/01/2004
DOI: 10.1353/fro.2004.0059

View Online

Abstract

Choi explores the complex nature of gendered modernity with special focus on the discursive construction of modern womanhood by missionaries. She examines the novel, The Concubine, by Ellasue Canter Wagner to illuminate how Protestant missionaries in early-twentieth-century Korea worked to create a new kind of woman who bore more resemblance to the Victorian True Woman than she did to the New Woman of Korea or the US.
Literary Criticism Gender Missionaries Modernism Novels Race Wagner, Ellasue Canter (1881-1957) Women

Details

Metrics

29 Record Views
Logo image