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After the Massacre - Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai (Paperback)
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After the Massacre - Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai (Paperback)
Series: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes, 14
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Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at
My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate
throughout Vietnam and the rest of the world. This engrossing study
considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My - a village
where South Korean troops committed an equally appalling, though
less well-known, massacre of unarmed civilians - assimilate the
catastrophe of these mass deaths into their everyday ritual life.
Based on a detailed study of local history and moral practices,
"After the Massacre" focuses on the particular context of domestic
life in which the Vietnamese villagers interact with their
ancestors on one hand and the ghosts of tragic death on the other.
Heonik Kwon explains what intimate ritual actions can tell us about
the history of mass violence and the global bipolar politics that
caused it. He highlights the aesthetics of Vietnamese commemorative
rituals and the morality of their practical actions to liberate the
spirits from their grievous history of death. The author brings
these important practices into a critical dialogue with dominant
sociological theories of death and symbolic transformation.
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