Christina Schwenkel

The American War in Contemporary Vietnam

Transnational Remembrance and Representation

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Produktbeschreibung

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' ce

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9780253220769
• ISBN-10: 0253220769
• Artikelnr.: 25683167

Autorenporträt

Christina Schwenkel

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Note on Use of Diacritics
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Remembering (in) Vietnam
Part 1. Reconciliatory Projects
1. Return to Vietnam: Redemption, Reconciliation, and Salvation
2. Exhibiting War, Reconciling Pasts: Photojournalism and Divergent Visual
Histories
Part 2. Memorial Landscapes
3. Commodified Memories and Embodied Experiences of War
4. Monumentalizing War: Toward a New Aesthetics of Memory
Part 3. Incommensurable Pasts
5. Contested Truths: Museums and Regimes of Representation and
Objectivity
6. Tortured Bodies and the Neoliberal Politics of Historical
Unaccountability
Conclusion: Empires of Memory and Knowledge Production
Notes
Works Cited
Index