Overview
- Brings together leading scholars from memory studies, history and sociology
- Offers a broad ranging exploration of the long term impact of the colonialism and the cold war on Korea
- Ideal for students and scholars interested in Korean History and cultural memory
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This pioneering book is the first English volume on Korean memories. In it, Mikyoung Kim introduces ‘psycho-historical fragmentation’, a concept that explains South Korea’s mnemonic rupture as a result of living under intense temporal, psychological and physical pressure. As Korean society has undergone transformation at unusual speed and intensity, so has its historical memory. Divided into three sections, on lingering colonial legacies, the residuals of the Cold War and Korean War, and Korea’s democracy movement in the 1980s, Korean Memories and Psycho-Historical Fragmentation aims to tell multi-layered, subtle and lesser-known stories of Korea’s historical past. With contributions from interdisciplinary perspectives, it reveals the fragmentation of Korean memory and the impact of silencing.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Cold War Residuals and the Korean War
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Democratization, the People, and Political Leaders
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Mikyoung Kim is an independent scholar. Her previous books include the Routledge Handbook of Memory and Reconciliation in East Asia (2015) and Northeast Asia’s Difficult Past (2010), co-edited with Barry Schwartz.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Korean Memories and Psycho-Historical Fragmentation
Editors: Mikyoung Kim
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05906-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05905-7Published: 20 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05906-4Published: 09 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 316
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Culture, Memory Studies, History of Korea