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Healing Historical Trauma in South Korean Film and Literature (Paperback)
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Healing Historical Trauma in South Korean Film and Literature (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
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Through South Korean filmic and literary texts, this book explores
affect and ethics in the healing of historical trauma, as
alternatives to the measures of transitional justice in want of
national unity. Historians and legal practitioners who deal with
transitional justice agree that the relationship between
historiography and justice seeking is contested: this book reckons
with this question of how much truth-telling from a violent past
will lead to healing, forgiving, forgetting and finally overcoming
resentment. Nuanced interpretations of South Korean filmic and
literary texts are featured, including Park Chan-wook's Oldboy,
Bong Joon-ho's Mother and literary texts of Han Kang and Ch'oe Yun,
whilst also engaging the ethical and political philosophy of
Levinas, Hannah Arendt, and others. Also offered is new and
extensive research into the hitherto hidden history of thousands of
North Korean war orphans who were sent to Eastern European
countries for care. Grappling with the evils of history, the films
and novels examined herein find their ultimate themes in
compassion, hospitality, humility and solidarity of the wounded.
Healing Historical Trauma in South Korean Film and Literature will
appeal to students and scholars of film, comparative literature,
cultural studies and Korean studies more broadly.
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