ABSTRACT This article examines the rhetoric and embodied performance of mourning by “Sewol Parents” and develops the idea of insurgent melancholia to explain their role in moving a nation and the Korean diaspora across the Pacific, including fueling the democratic movement to impeach Korea’s first female president, Park Geun Hye, in 2017. While the nature of neoliberal violence is to seek invisibility, the diasporic mourning connected to these students who drowned aboard the Sewol Ferry revived memories of Korea’s dictatorial period and fueled new progressive politics and culture spanning the U.S. and Korea, making visible the ongoing violence of U.S. militarism and capitalism across the Pacific. By engaging representations of the broken family that frames the survivors’ insurgent melancholia, I conclude by reflecting on the unruliness of watery graves.

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哀悼的叛乱：跨太平洋的世越

摘要本文考察了“世越父母”哀悼的修辞和具体表现，并发展了叛乱忧郁的概念，以解释他们在推动一个国家和韩国侨民穿越太平洋方面的作用，包括推动弹劾韩国第一位女总统的民主运动，朴槿惠，2017 年。虽然新自由主义暴力的本质是寻求隐形，但与这些在世越渡轮上溺水的学生有关的侨民哀悼唤起了人们对韩国独裁时期的记忆，并推动了跨越美国和韩国的新的进步政治和文化，使太平洋彼岸美国军国主义和资本主义的持续暴力可见一斑。通过参与塑造幸存者叛乱忧郁症的破碎家庭的表现，