Communicating Trauma
Female Survivors' Witnessing the No Gun Ri Killings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2385498 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Suhi Choi (University of Utah, Salt Lake City,) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-34 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800410389441 |
| OpenAlex | W2078145678 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
In 2000, the Associated Press investigative report team won the Pulitzer Prize award for reporting on the No Gun Ri incident in which American troops during the Korean War killed innocent civilian refugees who had taken shelter near and under the bridge called No Gun Ri. As the primary witnesses of the No Gun Ri killings, female survivors have courageously communicated their unutterable trauma through both scripting and exorcizing. Through oral history interviews with survivors in South Korea, this article examines how the Confucian script of motherhood (i.e., mothers as reproducers, protectors, and expandable assistants of the male blood line) has enabled the No Gun Ri female rhetors on one hand to weave trauma into plausible stories, yet on the other hand provoked them to reflect on their memories with a sense of culpability. The findings of the study also suggest that the oral form of communication has facilitated the female rhetors to exorcize inarticulable memories which cannot be subject to the Confucian script of motherhood
Art · Bridge (graph theory · Criminology · Culpability · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Subject (documents · Gender Studies · History · Medicine · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |