The Intimacies of Conflict : : Cultural Memory and the Korean War /

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

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Winner, 2020 Peter C Rollins Prize, given by the Northeast Popular & American Culture AssociationEnables 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 t...

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

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