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Suicide and martyrdom are closely intertwined with Korean social
and political processes. In this first book-length study of the
evolving ideals of honorable death and martyrdom from the Choson
Dynasty (1392-1910) to contemporary South Korea, interdisciplinary
essays explore the changing ways in which Korean historical agents
have considered what constitutes a sociopolitically meaningful
death and how the surviving community should remember such events.
Among the topics covered are the implications of women's chaste
suicides and men's righteous killings in the evolving
Confucian-influenced social order of the latter half of the Choson
Dynasty; changing nation-centered constructions of sacrifice and
martyrdom put forth by influential intellectual figures in
mid-twentieth-century South Korea, which were informed by the
politics of postcolonial transition and Cold War ideology; and the
decisive role of martyrdom in South Korea's interlinked democracy
and labor movements, including Chun Tae-il's self-immolation in
1970, the loss of hundreds of lives during the Kwangju Uprising of
1980, and the escalation of protest suicides in the 1980s and early
1990s.
Suicide and martyrdom are closely intertwined with Korean social
and political processes. In this first book-length study of the
evolving ideals of honorable death and martyrdom from the Choson
Dynasty (1392-1910) to contemporary South Korea, interdisciplinary
essays explore the changing ways in which Korean historical agents
have considered what constitutes a sociopolitically meaningful
death and how the surviving community should remember such events.
Among the topics covered are the implications of women's chaste
suicides and men's righteous killings in the evolving
Confucian-influenced social order of the latter half of the Choson
Dynasty; changing nation-centered constructions of sacrifice and
martyrdom put forth by influential intellectual figures in
mid-twentieth-century South Korea, which were informed by the
politics of postcolonial transition and Cold War ideology; and the
decisive role of martyrdom in South Korea's interlinked democracy
and labor movements, including Chun Tae-il's self-immolation in
1970, the loss of hundreds of lives during the Kwangju Uprising of
1980, and the escalation of protest suicides in the 1980s and early
1990s.
This in-depth exploration of culture, media, and protest follows
South Korea's transition from the Korean War to the start of the
political struggles and socioeconomic transformations of the Park
Chung Hee era. Although the post–Korean War years are commonly
remembered as a time of crisis and disarray, Charles Kim contends
that they also created a formative and productive juncture in which
South Koreans reworked pre-1945 constructions of national identity
to meet the political and cultural needs of postcolonial
nation-building. He explores how state ideologues and mainstream
intellectuals expanded their efforts by elevating the nation's
youth as the core protagonist of a newly independent Korea. By
designating students and young men and women as the hope and
exemplars of the new nation-state, the discursive stage was set for
the remarkable outburst of the April Revolution in 1960. Kim's
interpretation of this seminal event underscores student
participants' recasting of anticolonial resistance memories into
South Korea's postcolonial politics. This pivotal innovation
enabled protestors to circumvent the state's official anticommunism
and, in doing so, brought about the formation of a culture of
protest that lay at the heart of the country's democracy movement
from the 1960s to the 1980s. The positioning of women as
subordinates in the nation-building enterprise is also shown to be
a direct translation of postwar and Cold War exigencies into the
sphere of culture; this cultural conservatism went on to shape the
terrain of gender relations in subsequent decades. A meticulously
researched cultural history, Youth for Nation illuminates the
historical significance of the postwar period through a rigorous
analysis of magazines, films, textbooks, archival documents, and
personal testimonies. In addition to scholars and students of
twentieth-century Korea, the book will be welcomed by those
interested in Cold War cultures, social movements, and
democratization in East Asia.
This in-depth exploration of culture, media, and protest follows
South Korea's transition from the Korean War to the political
struggles and socioeconomic transformations of the Park Chung Hee
era. Although the post-Korean War years are commonly remembered as
a time of crisis and disarray, Charles Kim contends that they also
created a formative and productive juncture in which South Koreans
reworked pre-1945 constructions of national identity to meet the
political and cultural needs of postcolonial nation-building. He
explores how state ideologues and mainstream intellectuals expanded
their efforts by elevating the nation's youth as the core
protagonist of a newly independent Korea. By designating students
and young men and women as the hope and exemplars of the new
nation-state, the discursive stage was set for the
remarkableoutburst of the April 19th Revolution in 1960. Kim's
interpretation of this seminal event underscores student
participants' recasting of anticolonial resistancememories into
South Korea's postcolonial politics. This pivotal innovation
enabled protestors to circumvent the state's official anticommunism
and, in doing so, brought about the formation of a culture of
protest that lay at the heart of the country's democracy movement
from the 1960s to the 1980s. The positioning of women as
subordinates in the nation-building enterprise is also shown to be
a direct translation of postwar and Cold War exigencies into the
sphere of culture; this cultural conservatism went on to shape the
terrain of gender relations in subsequent decades. A meticulously
researched cultural history, Youth for Nation illuminates the
historical significance of the postwar period through a rigorous
analysis of magazines, films, textbooks, archival documents, and
personal testimonies. In addition to scholars and students of
twentieth-century Korea, the book will be welcomed by those
interested in ColdWar cultures, social movements, and
democratization in East Asia.
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