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

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 217 pages) : map Series Asia--local studies/global themes ; 14 Asia--local studies/global themes ; 14 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-212) and index Notes English Print version record Subject My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Atrocities. HISTORY -- Military -- Vietnam War. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Atrocities Historiography Auswirkung Geschichtsschreibung Gesellschaft Massaker My Lai -- Massaker Vietnamkrieg Vietnamkriget 1961-1975. SUBJECT Mỹ Lại 4 (Vietnam) -- Historiography Subject Vietnam Vietnam -- Mỹ Lại 4 My Lai -- Massaker. Form Electronic book LC no. 2005037445 ISBN 9780520939653 0520939654 0520247965 9780520247963 0520247973 9780520247970 1282772082 9781282772083 9786612772085 6612772085

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