Title Frontiers of memory in the Asia-Pacific : difficult heritage and the transnational politics of postcolonial nationalism / edited by Shu-Mei Huang, Hyun Kyung Lee, and Edward Vickers

Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 248 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Book collections on Project MUSE Summary Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific explores the making and consumption of conflict-related heritage throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Contributing to a growing literature on 'difficult heritage', this collection advances our understanding of how places of pain, shame, oppression, and trauma have been appropriated and refashioned as 'heritage' in a number of societies in contemporary East and Southeast Asia and Oceania. The authors analyse how the repackaging of difficult pasts as heritage can serve either to reinforce borders, transcend them, or even achieve both simultaneously, depending on the political agendas that inform the heritage-making process. They also examine the ways in which these processes respond to colonialism, decolonization, and nationalism. The volume shows how efforts to preserve various sites of 'difficult heritage' can involve the construction of new borders in the mind between what is commemorated and what is often deliberately obscured or forgotten. Taken together, the studies presented here suggest new directions for comparative research into difficult heritage across Asia and beyond, applying an interdisciplinary and critical perspective that spans history, heritage studies, memory studies, urban studies, architecture, and international relations Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 13, 2022) Subject Collective memory -- Pacific Area Imperialism -- History Cultural property -- Political aspects -- Pacific Area Collective memory Imperialism Politics and government SUBJECT Pacific Area -- History Pacific Area -- Politics and government Subject Pacific Area Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Huang, Shu-Mei, 1979- editor. Lee, Hyun Kyung, editor. Vickers, Edward, 1971- editor. ISBN 9888754939 9789888754939

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