Laying Claim to the Memory of May : A Look

The Kwangju Uprising -- "Korea's Tiananmen" -- is one of the most important political events in late twentieth-century Korean history. What began as a peaceful demonstration against the imposition of military rule in the southwestern city of Kwangju in May 1980 turned into a bloody people's revolt. In the two decades since, memories of the Kwangju Uprising have lived on, assuming symbolic importance in the Korean democracy movement, underlying the rise in anti-American sentiment in South Korea, and shaping the nation's transition to a civil society. Nonetheless it remains a contested event, the subject still of controversy, confusion, international debate, and competing claims.

As one of the few Western eyewitnesses to the Uprising, Linda Lewis is uniquely positioned to write about the event. In this innovative work on commemoration politics, social representation, and memory, Lewis draws on her fieldwork notes from May 1980, writings from the 1980s, and ethnographic research she conducted in the late 1990s on the memorialization of Kwangju and its relationsh

Linda S. Lewis is associate professor of anthropology and director of the East Asian Studies Program at Wittenberg University

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Note on Transliteration and Translation	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Kwangju, 1980: A Narrative Account
5.18 Begins: Violence and Confusion on the City's Streets	p. 3
The "Righteous" Rebellion: Citizens Fight Back	p. 14
Democracy in Action: The Days of "Free Kwangju"	p. 25
Popular Hopes Crushed: The Army Retakes the City	p. 52
"Kwangju Continues": The Summer of 1980 and Beyond	p. 59
City of Light/City of Outlaws
Truth Telling in the Fifth Republic	p. 75
Commemorating Kwangju: From Lamentation to Celebration
Kwangju in the 1990s	p. 99
The Construction of Memory and the 5.18 Movement: An Overview	p. 108
Making Martyrs and Patriotic Heroes: Direct Victims' Groups and the Legitimation of 5.18	p. 111
The Uprising as Civic Asset: New Citizens' Groups and the Reimaging of Kwangju	p. 135
What Is the "Kwangju Spirit"?	p. 144
Remembering Kwangju in Post-Minjung Korea	p. 152
Notes	p. 163
Bibliography	p. 179
Index	p. 185
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Laying Claim to the Memory of May : A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising

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