The Traces of Colonizationand the Duty of Memory: A Perspectivefrom South Korean Documentary Films

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to make the first contribution in Spanish to Korean documentary film studies through the comparative analysis of Our School (Kim Myeong Jun, 2006), Cheonggyecheon Medley (Kelvin Kyung Kun Park, 2010) and Annyong Sayonara (Kim Tae Il and Kato Kumiko, 2005). These movies will be analyzed by retaking and discussing Bhabha’s theoretical framework —mimesis, hybridization and translation— to suggest that South Korean documentary film’s past memories conform so a contradictory space of reminiscence in which the pattern of oblivion, collaboration, victims and national identity is reshaped.