Nothing ever dies : Vietnam and the memory of war / Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, [2016]Description: viii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780674660342 ((cloth; alk. paper) : alk. paper)
- 067466034X ((cloth; alk. paper) : alk. paper)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 959.7043 N576 | Available | 33111008164762 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Nothing Ever Dies , Viet Thanh Nguyen writes. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both the Americans and the Vietnamese.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Just memory -- Ethics: -- On remembering one's own -- On remembering others -- On the inhumanities -- Part 2. Industries: -- On war machines -- On becoming human -- On asymmetry -- Part 3. Aesthetics -- On victims and voices -- On true war stories -- On powerful memory -- Just forgetting Part 1.
"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.