European University Institute Library

The intimacies of conflict, cultural memory and the Korean War, Daniel Y. Kim

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The intimacies of conflict

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bibliography

Daniel Y. Kim

De Gruyter eBooks

cultural memory and the Korean War

Part 1. -- He's a South Korean when he's running with you, and he's a North Korean when he's running after you : military orientalism and military humanitarianism -- "Tan Yanks" and Black Korea : military multicultualism and race war in cinema -- Military orientalism and the intimacies of collaboration : sacrifice and the construction of the Nisei citizen-soldier as a model minority -- Picture Koreans : the age of the world target and humanitarian orientalism; Part 2. -- Angels of mercy and the angel of history : the disfiguring of humanitarian orientalism -- "Bled in, letter by letter" : postmemory and the subject of Korean War history -- The racial borderlands of the Korean War -- The intimacies of complicity -- Conclusion: "The delicate chains of war."

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