The Intimacies of Conflict : : Cultural Memory and the Korean War / / Daniel Y. Kim.

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• VerfasserIn: Kim, Daniel Y.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 17 b/w illustrations

Enables a reckoning with the legacy of the Forgotten War through literary and cinematic works of cultural memoryThough often considered “the forgotten war,” lost between the end of World War II and the start of the Cold War, the Korean War was, as Daniel Y. Kim argues, a watershed event that fundamentally reshaped both domestic conceptions of race and the interracial dimensions of the global empire that the United States would go on to establish. He uncovers a trail of cultural artefacts that speaks to the trauma experienced by civilians during the conflict but also evokes an expansive web of complicity in the suffering that they endured.Taking up a range of American popular media from the 1950s, Kim offers a portrait of the Korean War as it looked to Americans while they were experiencing it in real time. Kim expands this archive to read a robust host of fiction from US writers like Susan Choi, Rolando Hinojosa, Toni Morrison, and Chang-rae Lee, and the Korean author Hwang Sok-yong. The multiple and ongoing historical trajectories presented in these works testify to the resurgent afterlife of this event in US cultural memory, and of its lasting impact on multiple racialized populations, both within the US and in Korea. The Intimacies of Conflict offers a robust, multifaceted, and multidisciplinary analysis of the pivotal—but often unacknowledged—consequences of the Korean War in both domestic and transnational histories of race.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Korean War in Color -- Part I. The “Forgotten War” Before It Was Forgotten -- 1. “He’s a South Korean When He’s Running with You, and He’s a North Korean When He’s Running after You”: Military Orientalism and Military Humanitarianism -- 2. “Tan Yanks” and Black Korea: Military Multiculturalism and Race War in Movies and the Press -- 3. Military Orientalism and the Intimacies of Collaboration: Sacrifice and the Construction of the Nisei Citizen- Soldier as a Model Minority -- 4. Picturing Koreans: The Age of the World Target and Humanitarian Orientalism -- Part II. Assemblages of Memory -- 5. Angels of Mercy and the Angel of History: The Disfiguring of Humanitarian Orientalism -- 6. “Bled in, Letter by Letter”: Postmemory and the Subject of Korean War History -- 7. The Racial Borderlands of the Korean War -- 8. The Intimacies of Complicity -- Conclusion: “The Delicate Chains of War” -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author