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The American War in Contemporary Vietnam – Transnational Remembrance and Representation

Autor Christina Schwenkel
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 iul 2009
Christina Schwenkel's absorbing study explores how the "American War" is remembered and commemorated in Vietnam today - in official and unofficial histories and in everyday life. Schwenkel analyzes visual representations found in monuments and martyrs' cemeteries, museums, battlefield tours, and related sites of "war tourism." In these transnational spaces, American and Vietnamese memories of the war intersect in ways profoundly shaped by global economic liberalization and the return of American citizens as tourists, pilgrims, and philanthropists.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253220769
ISBN-10: 0253220769
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 155 x 234 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press

Cuprins

AbbreviationsIntroduction: Remembering (in) VietnamPart 1. Reconciliatory Projects1. Return to Vietnam: Redemption, Reconciliation, and Salvation; 2. Exhibiting War, Reconciling Pasts: Photojournalistic Practices and Divergent Visual HistoriesPart 2. Memorial Landscapes 3. Commodified Memories and Embodied Experiences of War; 4. Monumentalizing War: Toward a New Aesthetics of Memory Part 3. Incommensurable Pasts5. Contested Truths: Museums and the Global Politics of Objectivity and Representation; 6. Tortured Bodies, Neoliberal Politics, and Historical Unaccountability Conclusion: Empires of Memory: Imperial Designs in a Neoliberal WorldNotes; References Cited; Index

Recenzii

"A significant achievement, and one that does much to demonstrate the complexity of sites of war memory. . . . [Offers insights] that have an eerie resonance for today's political debates over the purpose and legitimacy of U.S. Actions in the Middle East." Geoffrey White, University of Hawai’i

"This book provides a great healing and revealing experience for any survivor or student of the Vietnam era." --On Point, Winter 2011"The American War in Contemporary Vietnam is essential reading for anyone teaching or wanting to understand Vietnam today and would be useful in teaching seminars or upper-level courses on Vietnam, Asia, memory, and history, as well as discussions of ethnographic methodology." - American Ethnologist


Notă biografică

Christina Schwenkel

Descriere

The politics of visual representation and transnational interaction