Dys-appearing tongues and bodily memories: The aging of first-generation resident Koreans in Japan

According to Bourdieu's thesis on habitus, codes of behavior are "memorized " and incorporated by the body, becoming the repertoire of culturally appro priated bodily behaviors. Building on this model, immigrant subjectivity wi th respect to aging is examined through the concept of bodily memory. I foc us here on the negotiation of colonial history, diasporic consciousness, an d cultural practice by first-generation resident Koreans of Japan. This pap er examines how the bartering of symbolic meanings in the consumption of Ko rean food reflects postcolonial negotiations of ideologies of difference an d how the body acts as a critical site of struggle in the performance of id entity.