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The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War
Auflage
1
Ort / Verlag
New York: NYU Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
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Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Enables a reckoning with the legacy of the Forgotten War
through literary and cinematic works of cultural
memory
Though often considered "the forgotten war," lost between the end
of World War II and the start of the Cold War, the Korean War was,
as Daniel Y. Kim argues, a watershed event that fundamentally
reshaped both domestic conceptions of race and the interracial
dimensions of the global empire that the United States would go on
to establish. He uncovers a trail of cultural artefacts that speaks
to the trauma experienced by civilians during the conflict but also
evokes an expansive web of complicity in the suffering that they
endured.
Taking up a range of American popular media from the 1950s, Kim
offers a portrait of the Korean War as it looked to Americans while
they were experiencing it in real time. Kim expands this archive to
read a robust host of fiction from US writers like Susan Choi,
Rolando Hinojosa, Toni Morrison, and Chang-rae Lee, and the Korean
author Hwang Sok-yong. The multiple and ongoing historical
trajectories presented in these works testify to the resurgent
afterlife of this event in US cultural memory, and of its lasting
impact on multiple racialized populations, both within the US and
in Korea. The Intimacies of Conflict offers a robust,
multifaceted, and multidisciplinary analysis of the pivotal-but
often unacknowledged-consequences of the Korean War in both
domestic and transnational histories of race.