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Exacerbated Politics: The Legacy of Political Trauma in South Korea

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Northeast Asia’s Difficult Past

Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies ((PMMS))

Abstract

The theme tying together the various chapters in this book is collective memory. Memory can inflame relations between two nations when they disagree on how to remember their encounters in years past. Such is the case in competing Korean and Japanese memories about the impact of Japan’s colonial rule and in competing Japanese and Chinese memories of what happened in Nanjing in 1937. These memory wars are well worth our examination. In this chapter, however, I will focus on how one people, the Korean people, remember and represent their own past.

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  1. Hiroshima City University—Hiroshima Peace Institute, Japan

    Mikyoung Kim

  2. University of Georgia, USA

    Barry Schwartz

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Baker, D. (2010). Exacerbated Politics: The Legacy of Political Trauma in South Korea. In: Kim, M., Schwartz, B. (eds) Northeast Asia’s Difficult Past. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277427_9

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