SUVANNABHUMI (수완나부미)

Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies (부산외대 아세안연구원)
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Between Two Deaths: Representation of the 1968 Huế Massacre 1968 in "Song for the Dead" of Trịnh Công Sơn

  • Received : 2019.08.31
  • Accepted : 2020.01.10
  • Published : 2020.01.31
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Abstract

The 1968 Huế Massacre is a horrifying event rarely mentioned today in Vietnamese history and mass media. It is forgotten perhaps because it is simply indescribable. This study reads a song by Vietnamese musician Trịnh Công Sơn, where he attempted to chronicle the catastrophic images of the massacre. We use the notion of symbolic death in psychoanalysis to interpretation of the song, and shed a new light on how it captured this historical event which eludes understanding.

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