After the Massacre : Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai / Heonik Kwon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kwon, Heonik, Author.

Series:

Asia--local studies/global themes ; 14.

Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Atrocities.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968.

Mỹ Lại 4 (Vietnam)--Historiography.

Mỹ Lại 4 (Vietnam).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2006]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate throughout Vietnam and the rest of the world. This engrossing study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My-a village where South Korean troops committed an equally appalling, though less well-known, massacre of unarmed civilians-assimilate the catastrophe of these mass deaths into their everyday ritual life.Based on a detailed study of local history and moral practices, After the Massacre focuses on the particular context of domestic life in which the Vietnamese villagers interact with their ancestors on one hand and the ghosts of tragic death on the other. Heonik Kwon explains what intimate ritual actions can tell us about the history of mass violence and the global bipolar politics that caused it. He highlights the aesthetics of Vietnamese commemorative rituals and the morality of their practical actions to liberate the spirits from their grievous history of death. The author brings these important practices into a critical dialogue with dominant sociological theories of death and symbolic transformation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface And Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

1. The Bipolarity Of Death

2. Massacres In The Year Of The Monkey, 1968

3. A Generation Afterward

4. Ancestors In The Street

5. Heroes And Ancestors

6. Grievous Death

7. The Stone Of Fury

8. The Decomposition Of The Cold War

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-212) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612772085

9781282772083

1282772082

9780520939653

0520939654

OCLC:

558892273