Right to mourn, trauma, empathy, and Korean War memorials, Suhi Choi
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Right to mourn, trauma, empathy, and Korean War memorials, Suhi Choi
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Right to mourn
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionariesbibliography
Oclc number
1119606447
Responsibility statement
Suhi Choi
Series statement
Oxford scholarship online.
Sub title
trauma, empathy, and Korean War memorials
Summary
'Right to Mourn' illustrates how suppressed trauma is manifested at the transient interactions among bodies, objects, and rituals in the sites of Korean War memorials. In a highly politicized memory space, many bereaved families of the Korean War have long been deprived of their rights to mourn the loss of their loved ones. These suppressed mourners comprise mainly survivors and victims' families of the atrocities committed by the US-allied South Korean forces before and during the Korean War. This text explores dialectic roles that memorial sites can play in communicating suppressed trauma: Can a memorial facilitate empathic mourning in which trauma possibly could be transmitted - as incomprehensible, incommunicable, and inaccessible as it is?--, Provided by publisher
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