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Author Schwenkel, Christina.

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

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 264 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Tracking globalization
Tracking globalization.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-248) and index.
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.
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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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Vietnam War (1961-1975)
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Foreign public opinion, Vietnamese.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Influence.
Vietnam -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Vietnam.
International relations.
United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Vietnam.
Public opinion -- Vietnam.
Public opinion.
Chronological Term 1961 - 1975
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Schwenkel, Christina. American war in contemporary Vietnam. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2009 9780253353061 (DLC) 2008054488 (OCoLC)261177801
ISBN 9780253003317 (electronic book)
0253003318 (electronic book)
1282293435
9781282293434
9780253353061 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0253353068 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780253220769 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0253220769 (paperback ; alkaline paper)