Nothing Ever Dies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nothing Ever Dies write by Viet Thanh Nguyen. This book was released on 2016-04-11. Nothing Ever Dies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, National Book Award in Nonfiction A New York Times Book Review “The Year in Reading” Selection 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 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. “[A] gorgeous, multifaceted examination of the war Americans call the Vietnam War—and which Vietnamese call the American War...As a writer, [Nguyen] brings every conceivable gift—wisdom, wit, compassion, curiosity—to the impossible yet crucial work of arriving at what he calls ‘a just memory’ of this war.” —Kate Tuttle, Los Angeles Times “In Nothing Ever Dies, his unusually thoughtful consideration of war, self-deception and forgiveness, Viet Thanh Nguyen penetrates deeply into memories of the Vietnamese war...[An] important book, which hits hard at self-serving myths.” —Jonathan Mirsky, Literary Review “Ultimately, Nguyen’s lucid, arresting, and richly sourced inquiry, in the mode of Susan Sontag and W. G. Sebald, is a call for true and just stories of war and its perpetual legacy.” —Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)
The American War in Contemporary Vietnam
The American War in Contemporary Vietnam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American War in Contemporary Vietnam write by Christina Schwenkel. This book was released on 2009-07-13. The American War in Contemporary Vietnam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Remembering Heaven's Face
Remembering Heaven's Face - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remembering Heaven's Face write by John Balaban. This book was released on 2002. Remembering Heaven's Face available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author recounts his years in Vietnam as a conscientious objector, serving as a teacher and a rescue worker for an organization that sent children with war injuries to the United States.
In Country
In Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Country write by John Prados. This book was released on 2011. In Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In an invaluable corrective, John Prados, one of our leading interpreters of the Vietnam War, opens a window into the visceral firsthand experiences of those on the ground in Vietnam. His carefully chosen and thoughtfully introduced anthology gathers the voices--in narrative and poetry--of men and women; Americans and Vietnamese (both of the North and South); officers and enlisted men. All of the selections feature individuals' experiences of war or witnessing specific events, and the realities of being caught up in them."--Publisher description.
Performing Remembering
Performing Remembering - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performing Remembering write by Rivka Syd Eisner. This book was released on 2018-08-13. Performing Remembering available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the performances and politics of memory among a group of women war veterans in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Through ethnographic, oral history-based research, it connects the veterans’ wartime histories, memory politics, performance practices, recollections of imprisonment and torture, and social activism with broader questions of how to understand and attend to continuing transgenerational violence and trauma. With an extensive introduction and subsequent chapters devoted to in-depth analysis of four women’s remarkable life stories, the book explores the performance and performativity of culture; ethnographic oral history practice; personal, collective, and (trans)cultural memory; and the politics of postwar trauma, witnessing, and redress. Through the veterans’ dynamic practices of prospective remembering, 'pain-taking', and enduring optimism, it offers new insights into matrices of performance vital to the shared work of social transformation. It will appeal to readers interested in performance studies, memory studies, gender studies, Vietnamese studies, and oral history.
