Southeast Asian Sister Writing Question
1. “The End of the State Highway,” “The Last of Hanak’o,” and “Brown Tears” (2 ~ 2 ½ pages)In all three stories, “The End of the State Highway,” “The Last of Hanak’o,” and “Brown Tears,” women and their different social categories of femininities are associated with certain kinds of “foreignness” vis-à-vis South Korean masculinity and patriarchy. Please analyze the ways in which how the female characters of the stories—the unnamed young military sex worker and her co-workers, Hanak’o and her friend/partner, and “Holly” and her “Southeast Asian sister”—become “foreignized,” i.e., marginalized, under/un/nationalized, and/or transnationalized/globalized at different historical junctures in South Korean history. (e.g., military sex workers in South Korea as a neocolony of the United States, Hanak’o as a professional émigré in globalized Korea/world, and Holly and the Sri Lankan woman in immigrant subimperial South Korea)Please cite at least 2 short examples from each story.(6 examples total at a minimum) 2. My Sassy Girl, Memento Mori, Laura Mulvey, Mary Ann Doane, bell hooks (2 ~ 2 ½ pages)Mulvey in her article talks about 3 different types of look, the camera’s look, the audience’s look at the film, and the characters’ look at one another within the film. Choose either the camera’s look or the characters’ look at one another and discuss comparatively how the two movies, My Sassy Girland Memento Mori, present different and/or similar versions of this look you focused on. You can either choose (1) or (2).(1). How does My Sassy Girl deal with the camera’s look? And how does its camera’s look differ from the ways in which Memento Mori treats its camera’s look? (2). How do these two movies offer different types of the characters’ look at each other? At the end of your response to this prompt as a whole, please add briefly your discussion of how the look you chose to focus on, i.e., the camera’s look or the characters’ look at each other, relates to the spectator’s look in each movie. In exploring this topic, please keep in mind all three articles by Mulvey, Doane and hooks. Please cite at least 2 examples from each movie. (total of 4 examples at a minimum) Please also cite 2 examples from two different articles, out of three mentioned above.