The American war in contemporary Vietnam
Book • 2009
In The American War in Contemporary Vietnam, Christina Schwenkel investigates the contested processes of remembrance and representation surrounding the Vietnam War within Vietnam and across diasporic and international contexts.
The book examines material practices—memorials, museums, and commemorative objects—and how they shape public memory and historical narratives.
Schwenkel attends to the politics of display and the negotiation of competing memories among state institutions, local communities, and transnational actors.
The work situates memory in relation to postwar reconstruction, cultural politics, and global circulations of people and objects.
It contributes to scholarship on memory studies, transnationalism, and the cultural aftermath of war.
The book examines material practices—memorials, museums, and commemorative objects—and how they shape public memory and historical narratives.
Schwenkel attends to the politics of display and the negotiation of competing memories among state institutions, local communities, and transnational actors.
The work situates memory in relation to postwar reconstruction, cultural politics, and global circulations of people and objects.
It contributes to scholarship on memory studies, transnationalism, and the cultural aftermath of war.
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