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Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea

Crossing the Divide
  • ISBN-13: 9780739184714
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By Nan Kim
  • Price: AUD $246.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/01/2017
  • Format: Hardback 284 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Asian history [HBJF]
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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.
Part I Chapter 1: Historicizing Korea's Geopolitical Liminality Chapter 2: Fateful Passages, In-Between States Part II Chapter 3: Anti-Commemorations Chapter 4: Threshold Rituals of Reconciliation Part III Chapter 5: Impossible Returns Chapter 6: Ethical Traversals Conclusion: Meeting with the Past Epilogue: The Afterlife of Division
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