1st Edition
Healing Historical Trauma in South Korean Film and Literature
By Chungmoo Choi
Copyright 2021
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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Through South Korean filmic and literary texts, this book explores affect and ethics in the healing of historical trauma, as alternatives to the measures of transitional justice in want of national unity.
Historians and legal practitioners who deal with transitional justice agree that the relationship between historiography and justice seeking is contested: this book reckons with this question... Read more
1. Evil, Banality and Apathy 2. The Power of Humility and Compassion 3. Ghostly Apparitions and the Face 4. Bio-Nationalism and Solidarity of the Wounded
Biography
Chungmoo Choi teaches cultural studies, critical theory, gender, literature, film and religion of Korea in the East Asian Studies at the University of California, Irvine, where she serves as an associate professor. Her publications include Dangerous Women: Gender and Nationalism in Korea and "The Discourse of Decolonization and Popular Memory: South Korea". She has served various journals as editorial collective member.
