ASAM 100A PZ -As Amer Lit Tpcs: The Korean War

Institution: Pitzer

Description: Asian American Literature Topics: The Korean War in Transcultural Memory This course examines how the Korean War has been remembered transculturally, especially by those who contest the dominant historical narrative of American benevolence. We will consider how writers and filmmakers remember â€œThe Forgotten Warâ€ differently, and what these representations say about the positionalities of the people depicted in each work. What is deconstructed and what is produced in the intercultural dynamic of the interaction of different historical memories? How did the Korean War affect existing metanarratives of race and nation, both in the United States and abroad? How do these works trouble the discourses of official history?