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Queer Archives, Performance, and Historiography in South Korea

siren eun young jung’s Yeosung Gukgeuk Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2023

Yeong Ran Kim
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Abstract

South Korea has recently experienced a queer historical turn. Contemporary Korean queer artists have been increasingly reanimating queer pasts in order to imagine queerness as a sense of togetherness. siren eun young jung’s Yeosung Gukgeuk Project (2008–present), one of the most celebrated works of queer art in South Korea, is a queer rendition of yeosung gukgeuk, a genre of all-female Korean opera of the 1950s and 1960s.

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TDR Brown Consortium Section
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TDR , Volume 67 , Issue 3 , September 2023 , pp. 47 - 60
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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