Healing “trauma of land”: Unburying the wounds of Japanese colonialism in Exhuma

• In Event: Power, Politics, and Pop Culture

Brief Overview

Exhuma is a film addressing the process of unburying two graves of Japanese colonizers. This paper analyzes the postcolonial contexts embedded in Exhuma and examines postcolonial generations’ controversial responses to this movie.

Authors

• Chloe Minkyoung Kwak, University of Connecticut

• Minju Lee, University of Connecticut