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.
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Bloomington
Indiana University Press
[2009]
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Table of 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.