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5%OFFChristina Schwenkel - The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation - 9780253220769 - V9780253220769
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The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation

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Description for The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation Paperback. The politics of visual representation and transnational interaction Series: Tracking Globalization. Num Pages: 280 pages, 41 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JM; HBJF; HBLX; HBWS2; JFC; KNSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 482.

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' cemeteries, museums, photography and art exhibits, battlefield tours, and related sites of "trauma tourism." In these transnational spaces, American and Vietnamese memories of the war intersect in ways profoundly shaped by global economic liberalization and the return of American citizens as tourists, pilgrims, and philanthropists.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Tracking Globalization
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253220769
SKU
V9780253220769
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About Christina Schwenkel
Christina Schwenkel is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside.

Reviews for The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation
"... a compelling and rare ethnographic portrait of a historically determined out-of-the-way place revealing postmodern conditions of globalizing capital undergoing locally situated revisions—in this case, toward a 'market economy with social orientation.' Fascinating and a must for all readers interested in the present and the past as it is constituted in memory.... Essential." —Choice "Anthropologist Schwenkel (Univ. of California, Riverside) ... Read more

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