New Faculty Seminar: Jeehyun Lim, “James Albert Michener’s Korea”
830 Clemens Hall University at Buffalo, BuffaloThis talk explores James A. Michener’s journalism and fiction on the Korean War. Unlike the Vietnam War, the Korean War lacks representations that mark its place in American cultural memory. Using Michener’s “Forgotten Heroes of Korea” and The Bridges at Toko-ri (1953) as a case study of the forgotten war’s representation that was widely circulated […]