The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation (Tracking Globalization)

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. Christina Schwenkel Explores How The 'american War' Is Remembered And Commemorated In Vietnam. She Looks At Monuments, Museums, Cemetaries, Battlefield Tours And Related Sites, And Offers An Assessment Of They Ways In Which Vietnamese And American Memories Of The War Intersect. 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. Christina Schwenkel. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [227]-248) And Index. CONTENTS Acknowledgments Note on Use of Diacritics List of Abbreviations Introduction: Remembering (in) Vietnam PART 1. RECONCILIATORY PROJECTS 1. Return to Vietnam: Redemption, Reconciliation, and Salvation 2. Exhibiting War, Reconciling Pasts: Photojournalism andDivergent Visual Histories PART 2. MEMORIAL LANDSCAPES 3. Commodifi ed Memories and Embodied Experiences of War 4. Monumentalizing War: Toward a New Aesthetics of Memory PART 3. INCOMMENSURABLE PASTS 5. Contested Truths: Museums and Regimes ofRepresentation and Objectivity 6. Tortured Bodies and the Neoliberal Politics ofHistorical Unaccountability Conclusion: Empires of Memory and Knowledge Production Notes Works Cited Index

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.