Postcolonial Loss: Collective Grief in the Ruins of Militarized Terror

Abstract

Whose deaths are publicly remembered and whose deaths are easily forgotten and erased from our collective memory? If remembering often entails forgetting of others, how might Christians practice an ethics of remembering grounded in justice? This chapter examines the intergenerational traumatic and haunting grief of the Korean War among Korean Americans and offers a possible way of working with and through postcolonial grief toward collective mourning.