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By Suhi Choi

The Korean warfare has been referred to as the “forgotten war,” no longer as studied as global conflict II or Vietnam. Choi examines the collective reminiscence of the Korean conflict via 5 discrete reminiscence websites within the usa and South Korea, together with the PBS documentary Battle for Korea, the Korean conflict Memorial in Salt Lake urban, and the statue of basic Douglas MacArthur in Incheon, South Korea. She contends that those websites usually are not static; quite, they're energetic locations the place countermemories of the battle conflict with the authentic state-sanctioned remembrance. via vigorous and compelling research of those reminiscence websites, which come with differing money owed of the No Gun Ri massacre--contemporaneous journalism and oral histories by means of survivors--Choi indicates varied narratives of the Korean battle competing for dominance in acts of remembering. Embattled Memories is a crucial interdisciplinary paintings in fields, reminiscence reports and public historical past, from an understudied viewpoint, that of witnesses to the Korean War.

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The Korean battle has been known as the “forgotten war,” no longer as studied as international conflict II or Vietnam. Choi examines the collective reminiscence of the Korean battle via 5 discrete reminiscence websites within the usa and South Korea, together with the PBS documentary conflict for Korea, the Korean struggle Memorial in Salt Lake urban, and the statue of normal Douglas MacArthur in Incheon, South Korea.

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