Assignment Task:
"Camel's Eye" and "Youngja's Heyday"
What are the ways in which these two stories demilitarize masculinity? Put another way, how do the stories suggest that we dissociate collective organized violence, i.e., wars, from conventional masculinity?
Consider the following issues related to demilitarizing masculinity: 1) military service as a form of labor, an economic activity; 2) masculinist nationalism and militarism; 3) masculine sexual prowess and military prowess; 4) disidentification with dominant ideologies of gender (both masculinity and femininity); 5) disidentification with nationalism and racial/racist ideology.