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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn923017640
035 $a(OCoLC)923017640
035 $a(NNC)11913280
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050 00 $aDS559.8.S6$bN48 2016
082 00 $a959.704/31$223
100 1 $aNguyen, Viet Thanh,$d1971-$eauthor.
245 10 $aNothing ever dies :$bVietnam and the memory of war /$cViet Thanh Nguyen.
264 1 $aCambridge, Massachusetts :$bHarvard University Press,$c2016.
264 4 $c©2016
300 $aviii, 374 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [330]-352) and index.
505 00 $tJust memory --$tEthics: --$tOn remembering one's own --$tOn remembering others --$tOn the inhumanities --$tIndustries: --$tOn war machines --$tOn becoming human --$tOn asymmetry --$tAesthetics --$tOn victims and voices --$tOn true war stories --$tOn powerful memory --$tJust forgetting.
520 $a"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.
520 $a"All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the bestselling novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call the American War--a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both nations. From a kaleidoscope of cultural forms--novels, memoirs, cemeteries, monuments, films, photography, museum exhibits, video games, souvenirs, and more--Nothing Ever Dies brings a comprehensive vision of the war into sharp focus. At stake are ethical questions about how the war should be remembered by participants that include not only Americans and Vietnamese but also Laotians, Cambodians, South Koreans, and Southeast Asian Americans. Too often, memorials valorize the experience of one's own people above all else, honoring their sacrifices while demonizing the "enemy"--or, most often, ignoring combatants and civilians on the other side altogether. Visiting sites across the United States, Southeast Asia, and Korea, Viet Thanh Nguyen provides penetrating interpretations of the way memories of the war help to enable future wars or struggle to prevent them. Drawing from this war, Nguyen offers a lesson for all wars by calling on us to recognize not only our shared humanity but our ever-present inhumanity. This is the only path to reconciliation with our foes, and with ourselves. Without reconciliation, war's truth will be impossible to remember, and war's trauma impossible to forget." -- Publisher's description
650 0 $aVietnam War, 1961-1975$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aVietnam War, 1961-1975$vArt and the war.
650 0 $aMemory$xSociological aspects.
650 0 $aWar and society.
650 0 $aArt and war.
650 0 $aIdentity (Psychology) in art.
611 27 $aVietnam War (1961-1975)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01431664
650 7 $aArt and war.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00815446
650 7 $aIdentity (Psychology) in art.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00966908
650 7 $aMemory$xSociological aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01015942
650 7 $aSocial aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01354981
650 7 $aWar and society.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01170447
648 7 $a1961 - 1975$2fast
655 7 $aArt.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423702
852 00 $bglx$hDS559.8.S6$iN48 2016