![]() As representations, bodies shape the cultural and historiographic divide that still exists between the different actors of the Korean War. Since bodies are shaped by war as much as they shape war, bodies of memory can indeed be expected to abide by the same dynamics.ĢThe overall purpose of this paper is to determine why war can be described as an embodying event or, more specifically, how the bodies of war contribute to shape the bodies of memory and thereby affect how the war will be remembered. Based on the distinction that war and memory are fundamentally embodied, this diachronic research will make the best of the specificities of the war in Korea to inquire into the porous nature of the theoretical line that historically relates and yet inevitably divides the two. ![]() Top of pageġThis study of the Korean War (1950-3) endeavors to analyze the war phenomenon in its countless bodily representations of then and now. Then, considering that the body infers meaning to society in that it produces a symbolic order and impacts on its collective representations, it will be argued that the staging of the bodies of war and memory causes them to articulate a form of nonverbal discourse with a multiplicity of meanings as well as a more pragmatic, sometimes even political, function that must be acknowledged as it makes the history of the Korean War even more delicate to assess given that a “national” idea of the war came to replace its memory. Our first concern, thus, in dealing with the use of bodies in a process of remembrance and forgetfulness will be to address the corporality, or corpo reality of war in theory before attention is paid to the Korean War itself and to the different historical, political and civic implications of its commemoration in the United States today. Given that the “body-war diptych” (M. Joly) is pivotal to understand the corporality of war, this paper endeavors to study how bodies were used in propaganda, pictures, movies, narratives, ceremonies or historical reconstructions to shape the memory of war. This study takes the case of the Korean War (1950-1953) to raise the question of the body as a means of representation in the staging of war and memory in the United States. Sachant que le corps donne du sens à la société du fait qu’il produit un ordre symbolique et affecte ses représentations collectives, on avancera l’idée que la mise en scène des corps de la guerre et de la mémoire induit une forme de discours non verbal dont les significations multiples ainsi que la fonction pragmatique, et parfois même politique, doivent être estimées en ce qu’elles rendent l’histoire de la guerre de Corée plus délicate encore à évaluer puisqu’elles substituent à la mémoire une idée nationale de la guerre. Aussi faut-il, avant d’étudier les usages du corps dans une dynamique de la mémoire et de l’oubli, aborder en premier lieu la corporalité, ou la réalité corporelle de la guerre, en théorie avant de nous intéresser spécifiquement à la guerre de Corée et aux différentes implications historiques, politiques et civiques de sa commémoration aujourd’hui aux Etats-Unis. ![]() ![]() Etant donné que le « diptyque corps/guerre » (M. Joly) est essentiel pour comprendre la corporalité de la guerre, cet article propose d’étudier comment le corps a été utilisé dans la propagande, les images, les films, les récits de guerre, les cérémonies ou les reconstructions historiques pour façonner la mémoire de la guerre. Cette étude prend le cas de la guerre de Corée (1950-1953) pour soulever la question du corps comme moyen de représentation dans la mise en scène de la guerre et de la mémoire aux Etats-Unis. ![]()
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