Memory, reconciliation, and reunions in South Korea : crossing the divide / Nan Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Nan, 1969- author.

Series:

AsiaWorld

Asia World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Korean reunification question (1945- ).

Family reunification--Korea (South).

Family reunification.

Social aspects.

Korea (South).

Korean reunification question (1945- )--Social aspects.

International relations.

Korea (South)--Relations--Korea (North).

Relations.

Korea (North).

Korea (North)--Relations--Korea (South).

Physical Description:

xxvii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Historicizing Korea's geopolitical liminality

Fateful passages, in-between states

Anti-commemorations

Threshold rituals of reconciliation

Impossible returns

Ethical traversals

Conclusion : meeting with the past

Epilogue : the afterlife of division.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) and index.

ISBN:

9780739184714

0739184717

OCLC:

964922738