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Editor’s Introduction

Editor’s Introduction Jiyoung Suh’s “The Gaze on the Threshold: Korean Housemaids of Jap- anese Families in Colonial Korea” accounts theoretically for the singular condition of colonial intimacy in Japanese- occupied Korea. One conclusion she reaches is that while Ann Stoler and Mary Louise Pratt’s early insights into colonial social life placed foreigners and indigenes together in the same place, to be useful, their conclusions and methodological assumptions must be thoroughly reconsidered. Suh’s primary focus here is female domestic labor under Japanese colonialism. Her point regarding “dichotomous colo- nial narratives” opens a social theoretical window in which scholars never apply existing general theory but rather measure their own areas of expertise against the singularity that a Stoler or a Pratt had embedded in their initial generalizations. positions 27:3 doi 10.1215/10679847- 7539238 Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press Downloaded from https://read.dukeupress.edu/positions/article-pdf/27/3/425/619206/0270425.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 16 June 2020 positions 27:3 August 2019 426 The key here is the “dynamic operation of affective politics” among Korean housemaids (a category that Suh usefully complicates when she blurs labor categories, e.g., maids, barmaids, and domestic concubines), Japanese single male ofc fi e workers, Japanese parents, and Korean- born Japanese children. Another distinction for scholars of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions: asia critique Duke University Press

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Jiyoung Suh’s “The Gaze on the Threshold: Korean Housemaids of Jap- anese Families in Colonial Korea” accounts theoretically for the singular condition of colonial intimacy in Japanese- occupied Korea. One conclusion she reaches is that while Ann Stoler and Mary Louise Pratt’s early insights into colonial social life placed foreigners and indigenes together in the same place, to be useful, their conclusions and methodological assumptions must be thoroughly reconsidered. Suh’s primary focus here is female domestic labor under Japanese colonialism. Her point regarding “dichotomous colo- nial narratives” opens a social theoretical window in which scholars never apply existing general theory but rather measure their own areas of expertise against the singularity that a Stoler or a Pratt had embedded in their initial generalizations. positions 27:3 doi 10.1215/10679847- 7539238 Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press Downloaded from https://read.dukeupress.edu/positions/article-pdf/27/3/425/619206/0270425.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 16 June 2020 positions 27:3 August 2019 426 The key here is the “dynamic operation of affective politics” among Korean housemaids (a category that Suh usefully complicates when she blurs labor categories, e.g., maids, barmaids, and domestic concubines), Japanese single male ofc fi e workers, Japanese parents, and Korean- born Japanese children. Another distinction for scholars of

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Published: Aug 1, 2019

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