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

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schwenkel, Christina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Tracking globalization.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.