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Embattled memories: contested meanings in Korean War memorials

Suhi Choi
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Publication:
Reno : University of Nevada Press, 2014
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Summary:
"The Korean War has been called the "forgotten war," not as studied as World War II or Vietnam. Choi examines the collective memory of the Korean War through five discrete memory sites in the United States and South Korea, including the PBS documentary Battle for Korea, the Korean War Memorial in Salt Lake City, and the statue of General Douglas MacArthur in Incheon, South Korea. She contends that these sites are not static; rather, they are active places where countermemories of the war clash with the official state-sanctioned remembrance. Through lively and compelling analysis of these memory sites, which include two differing accounts of the No Gun Ri massacre\--contemporaneous journalism and oral histories by survivors\--Choi shows diverse narratives of the Korean War competing for dominance in acts of remembering. Embattled Memories is an important interdisciplinary work in two fields, memory studies and public history, from an understudied perspective, that of witnesses to the Korean War."-- [Provided by publisher]
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. "Silencing" Memories: Why Are We Again Forgetting the No Gun Ri Story?
  • 2. "Scripting" Memories: Female Survivors' Witnessing the No Gun Ri Killings
  • 3. "Sanitizing" Memories: Archival Images in the PBS Documentary "Battle for Korea"
  • 4. "Mythologizing" Memories: A Critique of the Utah Korean War Memorial
  • 5. "Shattering" Memories: The Statue of MacArthur in South Korea.
Author/Creator:
Choi, Suhi, 1971-
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
Embattled memories: contested meanings in Korean War memorials [by Choi, S.]
Subjects:
Korean War, 1950-1953 — Monuments — United States
Korean War, 1950-1953 — Monuments — Korea (South)
Memorialization — Social aspects — United States
Memorialization — Social aspects — Korea (South)
Collective memory — United States
Collective memory — Korea (South)
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Call Numbers:
DS921.9 .C56 2014eb
ISBNs:
9780874179378 (electronic bk.)
0874179378 (electronic bk.)
9780874179361 [Invalid]
087417936X [Invalid]
OCLC Numbers:
876736218
Other Control Numbers:
EBC4312872 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11608242