Format:
viii, 374 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First Harvard University Press paperback edition
ISBN:
9780674979840
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9780674660342
Content:
"All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. Exploring how this troubled memory works in Vietnam, the United States, Laos, Cambodia, and South Korea, the book deals specifically with the Vietnam War and also war in general. He reveals how war is a part of our identity, as individuals and as citizens of nations armed to the teeth. Venturing through literature, film, monuments, memorials, museums, and landscapes of the Vietnam War, he argues that an alternative to nationalism and war exists in art, created by artists who adhere to no nation but the imagination."--Provided by publisher
Content:
"All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. Exploring how this troubled memory works in Vietnam, the United States, Laos, Cambodia, and South Korea, the book deals specifically with the Vietnam War and also war in general. He reveals how war is a part of our identity, as individuals and as citizens of nations armed to the teeth. Venturing through literature, film, monuments, memorials, museums, and landscapes of the Vietnam War, he argues that an alternative to nationalism and war exists in art, created by artists who adhere to no nation but the imagination."--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Just memory -- Ethics: -- On remembering one's own -- On remembering others -- On the inhumanities -- Part 2. -- Industries: -- On war machines -- On becoming human -- On asymmetry -- Part 3. -- Aesthetics -- On victims and voices -- On true war stories -- On powerful memory -- Just forgetting -- Part 1.
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
American Studies
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Political Science
,
Ethnology
Keywords:
Vietnamkrieg
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Author information:
Nguyen, Viet Thanh 1971-
