Remembering and representing war is a particularly difficult project because war memories and memorials tend to privilege narratives that valorize the nation and its soldiers furthermore, remembrances that challenge the idea of the nation as anything but heroic are relegated to the margins and encouraged to be forgotten or discredited. Through a study of Korean and American filmic representations, the main question this project asks is: why is this war cast as forgotten, and profoundly, rendered unrepresentable? Drawing on an interdisciplinary body of scholarship, I argue that forgetting is not a passive act rather it indicates an act of repression and perhaps, a will not to remember. The lack of filmic representations of the Korean War, labeled by scholars as the “Forgotten War,” is glaring given the popularity of war films in Hollywood, particularly of WWII and the Vietnam War. For Shin Kyung-sook, one of the nations most popular authors, a mother is a source of her writings.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |