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Between Two Deaths: Representation of the 1968 Huế Massacre 1968 in “Song for the Dead” of Trịnh Công Sơn

  • SUVANNABHUMI
  • Abbr : SVN
  • 2020, 12(1), pp.143-156
  • DOI : 10.22801/svn.2020.12.1.143
  • Publisher : Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > Southeast Asia
  • Received : August 31, 2019
  • Accepted : January 10, 2020
  • Published : January 31, 2020

Lo Duc Anh 1

1Hanoi National University of Education

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The 1968 Huế Massacre is a horrifying event rarely mentioned today in Vietnamese history and mass media. It is forgotten perhaps because it is simply indescribable. This study reads a song by Vietnamese musician Trịnh Công Sơn, where he attempted to chronicle the catastrophic images of the massacre. We use the notion of symbolic death in psychoanalysis to interpretation of the song, and shed a new light on how it captured this historical event which eludes understanding.

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