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Quietude considers Korean Hiroshima victims' uses of voice, speech, song, and movement in the struggle for national and global recognition, in the ongoing work of negotiating their traumatic past, and in the effort to consolidate and maintain selves and relationships in the present.
List of contents
- Preface
- A Note on Transliteration
- About the Companion Website
- Introduction
- "Korea's Hiroshima"
- Between Worlds: The Hapcheon Atomic Bomb Victims Welfare Center
- Yi Suyong
- Bae Ilmyeong
- The Arts of Institutional Life
- Han Jeongsun
- Appendix: Resources for Support and Activism on Behalf of Atomic Bomb and Radiation Victims
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Joshua D. Pilzer is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto. His first book, Hearts of Pine, is about singing in the lives of Korean survivors of the Japanese "comfort women" system. He is currently conducting fieldwork for an ethnography of the voice in everyday life in contemporary Japan, focused on the uses of speaking and singing voices in pedagogies of propriety, authority and legitimate violence.
Summary
Quietude considers Korean Hiroshima victims' uses of voice, speech, song, and movement in the struggle for national and global recognition, in the ongoing work of negotiating their traumatic past, and in the effort to consolidate and maintain selves and relationships in the present.
