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Beyond Death
- The Politics of Suicide and Martyrdom in Korea
Engelsk Hardback
Beyond Death
- The Politics of Suicide and Martyrdom in Korea
Engelsk Hardback

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Suicide and martyrdom are closely intertwined with Korean social and political processes. In this first book-length study of the evolving ideals of honorable death and martyrdom from the Choson Dynasty (1392–1910) to contemporary South Korea, interdisciplinary essays explore the changing ways in which Korean historical agents have considered what constitutes a sociopolitically meaningful death and how the surviving community should remember such events. Among the topics covered are the implications of women's chaste suicides and men's righteous killings in the evolving Confucian-influenced social order of the latter half of the Choson Dynasty; changing nation-centered constructions of sacrifice and martyrdom put forth by influential intellectual figures in mid-twentieth-century South Korea, which were informed by the politics of postcolonial transition and Cold War ideology; and the decisive role of martyrdom in South Korea's interlinked democracy and labor movements, including Chun Tae-il's self-immolation in 1970, the loss of hundreds of lives during the Kwangju Uprising of 1980, and the escalation of protest suicides in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
390
ISBN-13:
9780295745633
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0295745630
Udg. Dato:
5 mar 2019
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
University of Washington Press
Oplagsdato:
5 mar 2019
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge