American War in Contemporary Vietnam - Transnational Remembrance and Representation

Informationen zum Autor Christina Schwenkel Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung The politics of visual representation and transnational interaction Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Christina Schwenkel, Schwenkel Christina
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.07.2009
• EAN: 9780253220769
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22076-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Tracking Globalization; Tracking Globalization
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries