Healing Historical Trauma in South Korean Film and Literature - Paperback

by Chungmoo Choi (Author)

Through South Korean filmic and literary texts, this book explores affect and ethics in the healing of historical trauma, as alternatives to the measures of transitional justice in want of national unity.

Author Biography

Chungmoo Choi teaches cultural studies, critical theory, gender, literature, film and religion of Korea in the East Asian Studies at the University of California, Irvine, where she serves as an associate professor. Her publications include Dangerous Women: Gender and Nationalism in Korea and "The Discourse of Decolonization and Popular Memory: South Korea". She has served various journals as editorial collective member.