강연초록:
Drawing on reinterpretations of
melancholia and collective remembrance, Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions
in South Korea: Crossing the Divide explores the multi-layered implications
of divided Korea's liminality, or its perceived "in-betweenness" in
space and time. Offering a timely reconsideration of the pivotal period
following the inter-Korean Summit of June 2000, this book focuses on a series
of emotionally charged meetings among family members who had lost all contact
for over fifty years on opposite sides of the Korean divide. With the scope of
its analysis ranging from regional geopolitics and watershed political rituals
to everyday social dynamics and intimate family narratives, this study provides
a lens for approaching the cultural process of moving from a disposition of
enmity to one of recognition and engagement amid the complex legacies of civil
war and the global Cold War on the Korean Peninsula.