Title: Korean memories and psycho-historical fragmentation /
Authors: Kim, Mikyoung, 1963-
Year: 2019
Subjects: Collective memory Korea.; Korean War, 1950-1953; Social movements Korea (South) History
Abstract: This pioneering book is the first English volume on Korean memories. In it, Mikyoung Kim introduces 'psycho-historical fragmentation', a concept that explains South Korea's mnemonic rupture as a result of living under intense temporal, psychological and physical pressure. As Korean society has undergone transformation at unusual speed and intensity, so has its historical memory. Divided into three sections, on lingering colonial legacies, the residuals of the Cold War and Korean War, and Korea's democracy movement in the 1980s, Korean Memories and Psycho-Historical Fragmentation aims to tell multi-layered, subtle and lesser-known stories of Korea's historical past. With contributions from interdisciplinary scholars, it reveals the fragmentation of Korean memory and the impact of silencing--back cover.
Contents: 1. Korean Memories and Psycho-Historical Fragmentation: Fast-Forward, Retrospective / Mikyoung Kim -- Part I. Japanese Colonial Legacies : 2. From War to War: Ch'anggyŏng Garden and Postcolonial Militarism in Early (South) Korea / Todd A. Henry -- 3. Women's Redress Movement for Japanese Military Sexual Slavery: Decolonizing History, Reconstituting Subjects / Na-Young Lee -- Part II. The Cold War Residuals and the Korean War : 4. Legacies of the Korean War: Transforming Ancestral Rituals in South Korea / Heonik Kwon -- 5. Experience of the Korean War and the Means of Subsistence of War Widows / Im-ha Lee -- 6. Memories of the Korean War among Rural Communities: The Village Called the "Moscow of Icheon" / Yong-ki Lee -- 7. Forgetting Korean Agency in the Transnational Cold War / Robert Oppenheim -- 8. Korea's Vietnam War and the Fall of Saigon: Reconstructing the War Memories of Detained Diplomats / Won Kim -- Part III. Democratization, the People, and Political Leaders : 9. "Politics of Desire": Ruling Discourse and Mass Mobilization of the Park Chung Hee Regime / Byoung-joo Hwang -- 10. The Subjectivity of Civil Militia in May 18 Gwangju Uprising / Jung Han Kim -- 11. Memories of Labor, Identities of the Time: Workers and Intellectuals in Korea's Labor Movement of the 1980s / Keong-il Kim -- 12. Truth, History Revision, and South Korea's Mnemonic Representation of the Past / Ñustra Carranza Ko -- Index.