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Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea
Crossing the Divide
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2016
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Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea: Crossing the Divide explores the history and tells the story of the emotionally charged meetings that took place among family members who, after having lost all contact for over fifty years on opposite sides of the Korean divide, were temporarily reunited in a series of events beginning in 2000. During an unprecedented period of reconciliation between North and South Korea, those nationally televised reunions would prove to be the largest meetings held theretofore among civilians from the two states since the inter-Korean border was sealed following the end of active hostilities in 1953. Drawing on field research during the reunions as they happened, oral histories with family members who participated, interviews among government officials involved in the events’ negotiation and planning, and observations of breakthrough developments at the turn of the millennium, this book narrates a grounded history of these pivotal events. The book further explores the implications of such intimate family encounters for the larger political and cultural processes of moving from a disposition of enmity to one of recognition and engagement through attempts at achieving sustained reconciliation amid the complex legacies of civil war and the global Cold War on the Korean Peninsula.
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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8471-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8472-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
255
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Acknowledgments No access
Notes on Methodology, Translation, and Transliteration No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 36
1 Historicizing Korea’s Geopolitical Liminality No access
2 Fateful Passages, In-Between States No access
3 Anti-Commemorations No access
4 Threshold Rituals, Fragility, and National Intimacy No access
