Nan Kim

Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea (eBook, ePUB)

Crossing the Divide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the 2019 Scott Bills Memorial Prize for Outstanding First Book in Peace History. Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea: Crossing the Divide explores the history and tells the story of the emotionally charged meetings that took place among family members who, after having lost all contact for over fifty years on opposite sides of the Korean divide, were temporarily reunited in a series of events beginning in 2000. During an unprecedented period of reconciliation between North and South Korea, those nationally televised reunions would prove to be the largest meetings held theretofore among civilians from the two states since the inter-Korean border was sealed following the end of active hostilities in 1953. Drawing on field research during the reunions as they happened, oral histories with family members who participated, interviews among government officials involved in the events' negotiation and planning, and observations of breakthrough developments at the turn of the millennium, this book narrates a grounded history of these pivotal events. The book further explores the implications of such intimate family encounters for the larger political and cultural processes of moving from a disposition of enmity to one of recognition and engagement through attempts at achieving sustained reconciliation amid the complex legacies of civil war and the global Cold War on the Korean Peninsula.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739184721
• Artikelnr.: 45220988

Autorenporträt

Nan Kim is Associate Professor of History and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she is the Faculty Lead for the Working Group on Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the Center for 21st Century Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Chapter 1: Historicizing Korea's Geopolitical Liminality Chapter 2:
Fateful Passages, In-Between States Part II Chapter 3: Anti-Commemorations
Chapter 4: Threshold Rituals of Reconciliation Part III Chapter 5:
Impossible Returns Chapter 6: Ethical Traversals Conclusion: Meeting with
the Past Epilogue: The Afterlife of Division