Remembering the "Forgotten War" : the Korean War through literature and art / Philip West and Suh Ji-moon, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

West, Philip, 1938-

Sŏ, Chi-mun.

Series:

Study of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Korean literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Korean literature.

Korean War, 1950-1953--Literature and the war.

Korean War, 1950-1953.

Korean War, 1950-1953--Art and the war.

Arts, Korean--20th century.

Arts, Korean.

Physical Description:

xiii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2001]

Summary:

In contrast to the many books that use military, diplomatic, and historic language in analyzing the Korean War, this volume takes a cultural approach in emphasizing the human dimension of the war that especially features Korean voices. There are chapters on Korean art inspired by the war, translations of poetry by Korean soldiers, and poetry by American soldiers on the war. There is a photographic essay by combat journalist and Pulitzer Prize -- winning photographer Max Desfor. Yet another chapter includes and analyzes songs about the Korean War -- Korean, American, Chinese -- that illuminate many complex war memories. There is also a discussion of Korean films on the war, as well as a chapter on Korean War POWs and their contested memories.

More than any other nonfiction book about the war, this one shows the human face of a great tragedy for Americans, Chinese, and most especially Koreans.

Contents:

1. Some Reflections on the Korean War / Steven I. Levine 3

2. Whether Enemy or Brother: Patriotism in Conflict with Brotherhood in the Korean War Poems by Korean Poets / Suh Ji-moon 12

3. Above All, the Waste: American Soldier-Poets and the Korean War / William D. Ehrhart 40

4. The Korean War and the Visual Arts / Roe Jae-ryung 55

5. The Korean War Through the Camera of an American War Correspondent / Max Desfor 77

6. The Korean War in the Lives and Thoughts of Several Major Korean Writers / Suh Ji-moon, based on videotaped interviews with Pak Wan-so, Yun Heung-gil, Yi Mun-yol, Kim Won-il, Hong Song-won, and Richard Kim 92

7. Reluctant Crusaders: Korean War Films and the Lost Audience / Lary May 110

8. The Korean War in Korean Films / Suh Ji-moon 137

9. Interior Stories of the Chinese POWs in the Korean War / Li Zhihua 152

10. In Search of Essences: Labeling the Korean War / William Stueck 187

11. Imagining a Different Korea: What If ... / Philip West, Editor, panel responses to five questions: Chae-jin Lee, Donald Oberdorfer, Byong-chu Koh, William Stueck 203.

Notes:

"East gate book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0765606968

0765606976

OCLC:

44979728