Forgetting Stories from the Islands, Jeju and Calauit

• Main Author: Ritumban, Raymon D
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Calauit Safari Park; defensive and complicit forgetting; Jeju April 3 incident; Martial Law; mnemocide; Arts and Humanities; Asian History; History; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/204; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/english-faculty-pubs/article/1204/viewcontent/04_S4_Raymon_Ritumban.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The traumatic experiences of people from peripheral islands are susceptible to mnemocide. Such erasure of memory is facilitated by “defensive and complicit forgetting,” which, according to Aleida Assmann, leads to “protection of perpetrators.” My paper reflects on the vulnerability of traumas from t...