Focusing on regional geopolitics, social dynamics, watershed political rituals, and family narratives, this book explores the cultural process of moving from enmity to engagement amidst the complex legacies of civil war and the global Cold War following the Inter-Korean Summit of June 2000.

Part I
Chapter 1: Historicizing Korea's Geopolitical Liminality
Chapter 2: Fateful Passages, In-Between States
Part II
Chapter 3: Anti-Commemorations
Chapter 4: Threshold Rituals of Reconciliation
Part III
Chapter 5: Impossible Returns
Chapter 6: Ethical Traversals
Conclusion: Meeting with the Past
Epilogue: The Afterlife of Division

Nan Kim is associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.