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LAYING CLAIM TO THE MEMORY OF MAY: A Look Back at the 1980

Kwangju Uprising. By Linda S. Lewis. Honolulu: University of Hawai'I Press. 2002. xxi, 189 pp. (B&W photos.) US$19.95, paper ISBN 0-8248-2543-8.

Let me begin with a disclaimer. I have known Linda Lewis for over twenty years. In fact, this book includes a brief account of a bus trip we took from Kwangju to Seoul in the aftermath of the 1980 Kwangju Uprising. Another challenge to my ability to provide an...