1st Edition
Narratives of Nation-Building in Korea A Genealogy of Patriotism
By Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Copyright 2003
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book offers new insight on how key historical texts and events in Korea's history have contributed to the formation of the nation's collective consciousness. The work is woven around the unifying premise that particular narrative texts/events that extend back to the premodern period have remained important, albeit transformed, over the modern period and into the contemporary period. The... Read more
Part I: Modern Identities; 1. The Violence of Civilization; 2. Aesthetic Ideology and the Nation; Part II: Women; 3. Signs of Love for the Nation; 4. Devoted Wives, Divided Nation; Part III: Men; 5. Park Chung-hee's Agrarian Heroes; 6. Students and the Redemption of History; 7. Monumental Histories; 8. Epilogue: Kim Dae Jung's Triumph
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Jager, Sheila Miyoshi
