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Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 > General
In Reencounters,Crystal Mun-hye Baik examines what it means to live
with and remember an ongoing war when its
manifestations-hypervisible and deeply sensed-become everyday
formations delinked from militarization. Contemplating beyond
notions of inherited trauma and post memory, Baik offers the
concept of reencounters to better track the Korean War's illegible
entanglements through an interdisciplinary archive of diasporic
memory works that includes oral history projects, performances, and
video installations rarely examined by Asian American studies
scholars. Baik shows how Korean refugee migrations are repackaged
into celebrated immigration narratives, how transnational adoptees
are reclaimed by the South Korean state as welcomed "returnees,"
and how militarized colonial outposts such as Jeju Island are
recalibrated into desirable tourist destinations. Baik argues that
as the works by Korean and Korean/American artists depict this Cold
War historiography, they also offer opportunities to remember
otherwise the continuing war. Ultimately, Reencounters wrestles
with questions of the nature of war, racial and sexual violence,
and neoliberal surveillance in the twenty-first century.
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