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After the Korean War : An Intimate History / Heonik Kwon.
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TextSeries: Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfarePublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020Description: 231 p. : 23 cmISBN: 9781108487924Subject(s): Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Social aspects | Social ethics -- KoreaAdditional physical formats: Online version:: After the Korean War.DDC classification: 951.90421 Summary: "Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this groundbreaking study of the Korean War's enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate human experience. Kwon boldly reclaims kinship as a vital category in historical and political enquiry and probes the grey zone between the modern and the traditional (and between the civil and the social) in the lived reality of Korea's civil war and the Cold War more broadly. With captivating historical detail and innovative conceptual frames, Kwon's moving, creative analysis provides fresh insights into the Korean conflict, civil war and reconciliation, history and memory and critical political theory"-- Provided by publisher.
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| 951.9042 S8542s So they will know : a Korean War memoir / | 951.9042082 C5451h Haunting the Korean diaspora : shame, secrecy, and the forgotten war / | 951.90421 K842 The Korean war in Asia : a hidden history / | 951.90421 K988a After the Korean War : An Intimate History / | 951.9042341 C7761f Fight, dig and live : the story of the Royal Engineers in the Korean War / | 951.90424 B7861c Striking back : combat in Korea, March-April 1951 / | 951.90424 S6341d The darkest summer : Pusan and Inchon 1950 : the battles that saved South Korea--and the Marines--from extinction / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this groundbreaking study of the Korean War's enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate human experience. Kwon boldly reclaims kinship as a vital category in historical and political enquiry and probes the grey zone between the modern and the traditional (and between the civil and the social) in the lived reality of Korea's civil war and the Cold War more broadly. With captivating historical detail and innovative conceptual frames, Kwon's moving, creative analysis provides fresh insights into the Korean conflict, civil war and reconciliation, history and memory and critical political theory"-- Provided by publisher.