| Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea: Crossing the Divide Contributor(s): Kim, Nan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1498525032 ISBN-13: 9781498525039 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $52.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - Korea - History | Military - Korean War - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 951.904 |
| Series: Asiaworld |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6" W x 9" (0.92 lbs) 284 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Cultural Region - East Asian - Topical - Family - Chronological Period - 1950's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drawing on reinterpretations of melancholia and collective remembrance, Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea: Crossing the Divide explores the multi-layered implications of divided Korea's liminality, or its perceived "in-betweenness" in space and time. Offering a timely reconsideration of the pivotal period following the inter-Korean Summit of June 2000, this book focuses on a series of emotionally charged meetings among family members who had lost all contact for over fifty years on opposite sides of the Korean divide. With the scope of its analysis ranging from regional geopolitics and watershed political rituals to everyday social dynamics and intimate family narratives, this study provides a lens for approaching the cultural process of moving from a disposition of enmity to one of recognition and engagement amid the complex legacies of civil war and the global Cold War on the Korean Peninsula. |