Right to mourn : trauma, empathy, and Korean War memorials / Suhi Choi.

9780190855277 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

English

1 online resource : illustrations

DS921.9 .C563 2019

951.90426

'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?

'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?

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