Global Easts : : Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing / / Jie-Hyun Lim.

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• VerfasserIn: Lim, Jie-Hyun,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
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South Korean historian Jie-Hyun Lim, raised under an anticommunist dictatorship, turned to Marxian thought to explain his country’s development, even as he came to struggle with its Eurocentrism. As a transnational scholar working in postcommunist Poland, Lim recognized striking similarities between...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Between Two Global Easts
• PART I REMEMBERING
• 1 Victimhood Nationalism: National Mourning and Global Accountability
• 2 The Second World War in Global Memory Space
• 3 Postcolonial Reflections on the Mnemonic Confluence of the Holocaust, Stalinist Crimes, and Colonialism
• PART II IMAGINING
• 4 A Postcolonial Reading of Sonderwege: Marxist Historicism Revisited
• 5 Imagining Easts: Cofiguration of Orient and Occident in the Global Chain of National Histories
• 6 World History as a Nationalist Rationale: How the National Appropriated the Transnational in East Asian Historiography
• 7 Nationalist Phenomenology in East Asian History Textbooks: On the Antagonistic Complicity of Nationalisms
• 8 Nationalist Messages in Socialist Code: On the Party Historiography in People’s Poland and North Korea
• PART III MOBILIZING
• 9 Mapping Mass Dictatorship: Toward a Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Dictatorship
• 10 Nationalizing the Bolshevik Revolution Transnationally: In Search of Non-Western Modernization Among “Proletarian” Nations
• Epilogue: Blurring Dichotomy of Global Easts and Wests in the Age of Neopopulism
• Index