A01=Julia Bleakney
American POWs
Author_Julia Bleakney
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contemporary
Contemporary Memorializing Practices
Contemporary Society
cultural
cultural memory research
Curt Lemon
Dog Tags
Doi Moi
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Ho Chi Minh City
Hue Massacre
individualized war remembrance
memorial
memorialization practices
memorializing
Memorializing Practices
memory
MIA Issue
Moving Wall
museum studies
National Vietnam Veterans Memorial
National World War Ii Memorial
Object Leaving
practice
St Air
trauma theory
True War Story
veteran
veterans
veterans commemoration
Viet Kieu
Vietnam Veterans
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
Vietnam War
Virtual Wall
war
war memory studies
War Remnants Museum
world
World War Ii Memorial
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138011786
- Weight: 317g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Aug 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book explores the memorializing practices of American veterans of the Vietnam War at several of the most significant contemporary sites of memory in the United States and Vietnam. These sites include veterans' memoirs, museum exhibits, replicas of the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and tourism to Vietnam. Because war memorializing has, since the late 1960s, shifted focus from national soul searching to personal identity and recovery, I emphasize how contemporary narratives of the war, shaped more by memory than by history, often are detached from the specific history of the war and its political controversies. Drawing on trauma and cultural memory scholarship, as well as empirical data gathered during field research in the U.S. and Vietnam, the author examines how veterans' memorializing practices have become increasingly individualized, commodified, and conservative since the early 1980s.
