Hwang Sok-Yong, Lee Jae-Eui, Jeon Yong-Ho

Gwangju Uprising (eBook, ePUB)

The Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On 18th May 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d'¿tat and martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces responded with unmitigated violence, and over the next ten days hundreds of students, activists and citizens were arrested, tortured and murdered. The events of the uprising shaped over a decade of resistance to the repressive South Korean regime, and paved the way for the country's democratisation in the 1990s.

The subject of right-wing conspiracy and controversy in South Korea, the texts of Gwangju Uprising survived in underground circulation and were recently republished. This fresh translation by Slin Jung of the original text, compiled from eye-witness testimonies, forms a gripping and full account of both the events of the uprising and the political situation which preceded and followed the violence of those days.

The edition contains a preface by Hwang Sok-yong, material which situates the uprising in its longer-term local and international context. The resulting volume is an unrivalled account of the movement for democracy and freedom in South Korea in the tumultuous period of the 1980s dictatorship. A vital collection for those interested in East Asian contemporary history and the global struggle for democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781788737159
• Artikelnr.: 69511857

Autorenporträt

Hwang Sok-yong is Korea's most renowned contemporary writer, the recipient of many of the country's highest literary prizes and the author of The Prisoner, forthcoming in translation from Verso (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Publication Committee’s Introduction: Breaking the Silence in the Face of
Slander
Preface: Once More Beyond the Darkness
Part 1: The Unstoppable Waves of History
Chapter 1: From October to May.
Chapter 2: Sporadic and Passive Resistance (Sunday, May 18: Day 1 of the
Uprising)
Chapter 3: Transition to an Active Offensive (Monday, May 19: Day 2 of the
Uprising)
Chapter 5: Armed Protests and Victory (Wednesday, May 21: Day 4 of the
Uprising)
Chapter 6: The Uprising Expands
Chapter 7: The Blockade of Gwangju and Civilian Massacres (May 21-24)
Part 2: Gwangju! Gwangju! Gwangju!
Chapter 8: Liberation I (Thursday, May 22: Day 5 of the Uprising)
Chapter 9: Liberation II (Friday, May 23: Day 6 of the Uprising)
Chapter 10: Liberation III (Saturday, May 24: Day 7 of the Uprising)
Chapter 12: Liberation V (Monday, May 26: Day 9 of the Uprising)
Part 3: The End, and a New Beginning.
Chapter 13: The Uprising’s Completion (Tuesday, May 27)
Chapter 14: The Rest of the Story
Chapter 14: Work Left Undone
Appendix
Timeline of Events:The Gwangju Uprising over the course of 10 days (May 17,
1980-May 27, 1980)
Publishing the Revised Edition:The History of Recording the Uprising
Bibliography