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Embattled Memories: Contested Meanings in Korean War Memorials
Suhi Choi
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Description for Embattled Memories: Contested Meanings in Korean War Memorials
Hardcover. Exploring the complexities of remembrance Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBWS1; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
The Korean War has been called the “forgotten war,” not as studied as World War II or Vietnam. Choi examines the collective memory of the Korean War through five discrete memory sites in the United States and South Korea, including the PBS documentary Battle for Korea, the Korean War Memorial in Salt Lake City, and the statue of General Douglas MacArthur in Incheon, South Korea. She contends that these sites are not static; rather, they are active places where countermemories of the war clash with the official state-sanctioned remembrance. Through lively and compelling analysis of these memory sites, which include ... Read more
The Korean War has been called the “forgotten war,” not as studied as World War II or Vietnam. Choi examines the collective memory of the Korean War through five discrete memory sites in the United States and South Korea, including the PBS documentary Battle for Korea, the Korean War Memorial in Salt Lake City, and the statue of General Douglas MacArthur in Incheon, South Korea. She contends that these sites are not static; rather, they are active places where countermemories of the war clash with the official state-sanctioned remembrance. Through lively and compelling analysis of these memory sites, which include ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874179361
SKU
V9780874179361
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About Suhi Choi
Suhi Choi studied at Korea University in Seoul, Brooklyn College, and Temple University. She is assistant professor of communication at the University of Utah. Her articles have appeared in Rhetoric and Public Affairs; Media, Culture, and Society; Qualitative Inquiry; Asian Cinema; The Public Historian; and Memory Studies.
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