Revisiting Vietnam

ISBN-13: 9780415978408 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 220 str.

Julia Bleakney

Opis

Drawing on trauma and cultural memory scholarship, as well as empirical data gathered during field research in the U.S. and Vietnam, this title examines how veterans' memorializing practices have become increasingly individualized, commodified, and conservative since the early 1980s.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction: Revis(it)ing Vietnam 1 A Brief History of Memory 2 Trauma, Metaphors, and the Body 3 Moving Walls 4 Objects of War and Remembrance 5 Returning to Vietnam Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Bleakney, Julia