Right to Mourn - Trauma, Empathy, and Korean War Memorials

Through the lens of Korean War memorials, Right to Mourn looks at how long-suppressed memories become public, and asks how a physical monument can possibly communicate trauma and facilitate mourning.

Table des matières

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Suppressed Mourners of the Korean War


• Chapter 2: The Jeju April 3 Peace Park: An Uncanny Site of Empathy


• Chapter 3: Gurye: A Muted Site of Remembering the Yosun Killings


• Chapter 4: Reenacting Survivors' Bodies in the No Gun Ri Peace Park


• Epilogue


• Bibliography

A propos de l'auteur

Suhi Choi is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Utah at Salt Lake City. She is the author of Embattled Memories: Contested Meanings in Korean War Memorials (2014).

Résumé

Through the lens of Korean War memorials, Right to Mourn looks at how long-suppressed memories become public, and asks how a physical monument can possibly communicate trauma and facilitate mourning.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Suhi Choi, Suhi (Associate Professor of Communication Choi, Choi Suhi
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 01.11.2019
• EAN: 9780190855246
• ISBN: 978-0-19-085524-6
• Pages: 180
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Military / General, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, military history, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, HISTORY / Asia / Korea, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Communication Studies, South Korea, c 1950 to c 1959, Asian History, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Battles & campaigns, Modern warfare, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Specific wars and campaigns, North Korea, C 1945 To C 1960, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General