Add to ORKGAnalyzing the ways U.S. culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, Marita Sturken argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and "American culture." She examines the relationship of camera images to the production of cultural memory, the mixing of fantasy and reenactment in memory, the role of trauma and survivors in creating cultural comfort, and how discourses of healing can smooth over the tensions of political events.Sturken's discussion encompasses a brilliant comparison of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the AIDS Quilt; her profound reading of the Memorial as a national wailing wall - one whose emphasis on the vete...
In this interesting study, Jenny Edkins explores how we remember traumatic events such as wars, fami...
This thesis is an attempt to articulate the meanings of collective memory as well as investigate its...
In my dissertation, I argue that trauma and cultural memory operate together to create the defining ...
In the United States, the writing on the Vietnam War involves the highly organized and strategic for...
In Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the Aids Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering, Marita Stu...
War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in r...
On May 9, 1990, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a ring with letter, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, a base...
This dissertation is about war and memory and bodies and things and the connections between them; it...
The book highlights the central role played by Vietnam veterans in shaping public memory of the war....
Over the last two decades, the concept of memory has assumed an important position in the humanities...
Part of a wider project on how the Vietnam War (1945-1975) is remembered by three key collectives, V...
This book explores the performances and politics of memory among a group of women war veterans in Ho...
Book co-authored by Astrid Schmetterling and Lynn Turner. Memory has become a major preoccupation...
Due to a stunning defeat in Vietnam, the years following the conflict were full of denial, shame, an...
The Vietnam War is evolving from contemporary memory into history. Fifty years on, it still serves a...
In this interesting study, Jenny Edkins explores how we remember traumatic events such as wars, fami...
This thesis is an attempt to articulate the meanings of collective memory as well as investigate its...
In my dissertation, I argue that trauma and cultural memory operate together to create the defining ...
In the United States, the writing on the Vietnam War involves the highly organized and strategic for...
In Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the Aids Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering, Marita Stu...
War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in r...
On May 9, 1990, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a ring with letter, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, a base...
This dissertation is about war and memory and bodies and things and the connections between them; it...
The book highlights the central role played by Vietnam veterans in shaping public memory of the war....
Over the last two decades, the concept of memory has assumed an important position in the humanities...
Part of a wider project on how the Vietnam War (1945-1975) is remembered by three key collectives, V...
This book explores the performances and politics of memory among a group of women war veterans in Ho...
Book co-authored by Astrid Schmetterling and Lynn Turner. Memory has become a major preoccupation...
Due to a stunning defeat in Vietnam, the years following the conflict were full of denial, shame, an...
The Vietnam War is evolving from contemporary memory into history. Fifty years on, it still serves a...
In this interesting study, Jenny Edkins explores how we remember traumatic events such as wars, fami...
This thesis is an attempt to articulate the meanings of collective memory as well as investigate its...
In my dissertation, I argue that trauma and cultural memory operate together to create the defining ...