After the Massacre Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai

Name: After the Massacre Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai
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ISBN: 9780520247970

ISBN-10: 0520247973

ISBN-13: 9780520247970

Edition: 2006

Authors: Heonik Kwon, Drew Faust

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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 Massacrefocuses 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…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/10/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 231
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


Foreword


Map of Central Vietnam


Introduction



The Bipolarity of Death



Massacres in the Year of the 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


Notes


Index