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The Resource After the massacre : commemoration and consolation in Ha My and My Lai, Heonik Kwon ; with a foreword by Drew Faust

After the massacre : commemoration and consolation in Ha My and My Lai, Heonik Kwon ; with a foreword by Drew Faust

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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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 217 pages)
Contents
  • The bipolarity of death
  • Massacres in the Year of Monkey, 1968
  • A generation afterward
  • Ancestors in the street
  • Heroes and ancestors
  • Grievous death
  • The stone of fury
  • The decomposition of the Cold War
  • Conclusion: Liberation from grievance
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9780520247970
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After the massacre : commemoration and consolation in Ha My and My Lai
Title
After the massacre
Title remainder
commemoration and consolation in Ha My and My Lai
Statement of responsibility
Heonik Kwon ; with a foreword by Drew Faust
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
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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1962-
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Kwon, Heonik
Dewey number
959.704/342
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
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maps
Index
index present
LC call number
DS557.8.M9
LC item number
K96 2006eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Asia--local studies/global themes
Series volume
14
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  • My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968
  • Mỹ Lại 4 (Vietnam)
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975
  • HISTORY
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • Atrocities
  • Historiography
  • Vietnam
  • Vietnam
  • Auswirkung
  • Geschichtsschreibung
  • Gesellschaft
  • Massaker
  • My Lai
  • Vietnamkrieg
  • Vietnamkriget 1961-1975
  • My Lai
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After the massacre : commemoration and consolation in Ha My and My Lai, Heonik Kwon ; with a foreword by Drew Faust
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-212) and index
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Contents
The bipolarity of death -- Massacres in the Year of Monkey, 1968 -- A generation afterward -- Ancestors in the street -- Heroes and ancestors -- Grievous death -- The stone of fury -- The decomposition of the Cold War -- Conclusion: Liberation from grievance
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558892273
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1 online resource (xii, 217 pages)
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online
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9780520247970
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  • 9780520247970
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After the massacre : commemoration and consolation in Ha My and My Lai, Heonik Kwon ; with a foreword by Drew Faust
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-212) and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
The bipolarity of death -- Massacres in the Year of Monkey, 1968 -- A generation afterward -- Ancestors in the street -- Heroes and ancestors -- Grievous death -- The stone of fury -- The decomposition of the Cold War -- Conclusion: Liberation from grievance
Control code
558892273
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 217 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780520247970
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
  • 9780520247963
  • 9780520247970
Other physical details
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http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
  • 22573/cttt25kn
  • 64a51b05-bb94-449c-a91a-755a197646cb
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Specific material designation
remote
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(OCoLC)558892273

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