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Seeing Like a Child - Inheriting the Korean War (Paperback)
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Seeing Like a Child - Inheriting the Korean War (Paperback)
Series: Thinking from Elsewhere
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Winner, 2022 Senior Book Prize, Association for Feminist
Anthropology Finalist, 2022 Victor Turner Prize An utterly original
and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography
and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through the eyes
of a child. Seeing Like a Child is a deeply moving narrative that
showcases an unexpected voice from an established researcher.
Through an unwavering commitment to a child's perspective, Clara
Han explores how the catastrophic event of the Korean War is
dispersed into domestic life. Han writes from inside her childhood
memories as the daughter of parents who were displaced by war, who
fled from the North to the South of Korea, and whose displacement
in Korea and subsequent migration to the United States implicated
the fraying and suppression of kinship relations and the Korean
language. At the same time, Han writes as an anthropologist whose
fieldwork has taken her to the devastated worlds of her parents-to
Korea and to the Korean language-allowing her, as she explains, to
find and found kinship relationships that had been suppressed or
broken in war and illness. A fascinating counterpoint to the
project of testimony that seeks to transmit a narrative of the
event to future generations, Seeing Like a Child sees the
inheritance of familial memories of violence as embedded in how the
child inhabits her everyday life. Seeing Like a Child offers
readers a unique experience-an intimate engagement with the
emotional reality of migration and the inheritance of mass
displacement and death-inviting us to explore categories such as
"catastrophe," "war," "violence," and "kinship" in a brand-new
light.
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