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The American war in contemporary Vietnam : transnational remembrance and representation / Christina Schwenkel.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Tracking globalizationPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 264 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253003317
  • 0253003318
  • 1282293435
  • 9781282293434
  • 9786612293436
  • 6612293438
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: American war in contemporary Vietnam.DDC classification:
  • 959.704/3 22
LOC classification:
  • DS559.62.V5 S39 2009eb
Other classification:
  • 15.78
  • 15.87
  • LB 63415
  • MH 58094
  • NQ 9050
  • 7,26
  • 8
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Contents:
Introduction: Remembering (in) Vietnam -- Return to Vietnam : redemption, reconciliation, and salvation -- Exhibiting war, reconciling pasts : photojournalism and divergent visual histories -- Commodified memories and embodied experiences of war -- Monumentalizing war : toward a new aesthetics of memory -- Contested truths : museums and regimes of representation and objectivity -- Tortured bodies and the neoliberal politics of historical unaccountability -- Conclusion: Empires of memory and knowledge production.
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Summary: Christina Schwenkel explores how the 'American War' is remembered & commemorated in Vietnam. She looks at monuments, museums, cemetaries, battlefield tours & related sites, & offers an assessment of they ways in which Vietnamese & American memories of the war intersect.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-248) and index.

Introduction: Remembering (in) Vietnam -- Return to Vietnam : redemption, reconciliation, and salvation -- Exhibiting war, reconciling pasts : photojournalism and divergent visual histories -- Commodified memories and embodied experiences of war -- Monumentalizing war : toward a new aesthetics of memory -- Contested truths : museums and regimes of representation and objectivity -- Tortured bodies and the neoliberal politics of historical unaccountability -- Conclusion: Empires of memory and knowledge production.

Christina Schwenkel explores how the 'American War' is remembered & commemorated in Vietnam. She looks at monuments, museums, cemetaries, battlefield tours & related sites, & offers an assessment of they ways in which Vietnamese & American memories of the war intersect.

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