@article{ART002112794},
author={Hang KIM},
title={Memory of Division and Politics of Memory},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2016},
volume={73},
number={2},
pages={361-392},
doi={10.17326/jhsnu.73.2.201605.361}
TY - JOUR
AU - Hang KIM
TI - Memory of Division and Politics of Memory
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2016
VL - 73
IS - 2
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 361
EP - 392
SN - 1598-3021
AB - This article examines possibility of how the memory of division in Korean peninsula could be appropriated politically. That division of the peninsula has functioned as ‘dispositif of sovereignty’ and the politics of memory should suspend this function is main argument of this article. ‘Dispositif of sovereignty’ is a complex of knowledges and institutions that produces fictional state of exception through which sovereignty of the state could present itself. In the case of South Korea, it would be shown in the law of national security that is a decisive element constructed by various political, econimical and scientific practices. The politics of memory can be regarded as a sort of practice which should suspend function of such dispositif, but the previous discourses about this politics have not been able to clarify this kind of suspension. Walter Benjamin and Ichiro Tomiyama are influential figures who can give an important perspective proposing what is characteristic to the politics of memory. Benjamin defined the memory as an appropriation of the past which could never belong to winner or loser in history, and Tomiyama, along with Benjamin, has recalled a figure of ghost which was forgotten and thrown into hall of oblivion. Sojin Kim, a novelist in contemporary Korea, thematized this kind of politics of memory in his works. He showed us a cesura of history by describing his father’s life. This cesura of history which Sojin Kim made exist is a point of suspension of dispositif of sovereignty, and the politics of memory could redeem an original form of life combining the past and the future onto the present.
KW - division;dispositif of sovereignty;politics of memory;hole of oblivion;cesura of history
DO - 10.17326/jhsnu.73.2.201605.361
ER -
Hang KIM. (2016). Memory of Division and Politics of Memory. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 73(2), 361-392.
Hang KIM. 2016, "Memory of Division and Politics of Memory", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.73, no.2 pp.361-392. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.73.2.201605.361
Hang KIM "Memory of Division and Politics of Memory" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 73.2 pp.361-392 (2016) : 361.
Hang KIM. Memory of Division and Politics of Memory. 2016; 73(2), 361-392. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.73.2.201605.361
Hang KIM. "Memory of Division and Politics of Memory" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 73, no.2 (2016) : 361-392.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.73.2.201605.361
Hang KIM. Memory of Division and Politics of Memory. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 73(2), 361-392. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.73.2.201605.361
Hang KIM. Memory of Division and Politics of Memory. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2016; 73(2) 361-392. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.73.2.201605.361
Hang KIM. Memory of Division and Politics of Memory. 2016; 73(2), 361-392. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.73.2.201605.361
Hang KIM. "Memory of Division and Politics of Memory" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 73, no.2 (2016) : 361-392.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.73.2.201605.361
