Ghosts of war in Vietnam /

This book is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls of the war dead. These ghosts of war play an important part in postwar Vietnamese historical narrative and imagination, and Heonik Kwon explore...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Kwon, Heonik
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Zusammenfassung:
This book is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls of the war dead. These ghosts of war play an important part in postwar Vietnamese historical narrative and imagination, and Heonik Kwon explores the intimate ritual ties with these unsettled identities which still survive in Vietnam today as well as the actions of those who hope to liberate these hidden but vital historical presences from their uprooted social existence. Taking a unique approach to the cultural history of war, he introduces gripping stories about spirits claiming social justice and about his own efforts to wrestle with the physical and spiritual presence of ghosts. Although these actions are fantastical, this book shows how examining their stories can illuminate critical issues of war and collective memory in Vietnam and the modern world more generally.
Umfang:
1 online resource (viii, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Anmerkungen:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-213) and index.
ISBN:
0-511-38149-2
1-107-18443-6
0-511-38821-7
1-281-25488-6
0-511-38619-2
0-511-38722-9
0-511-80759-7
0-511-38255-3
0-511-38436-X
9786611254889
0-511-38038-0
Schlagworte:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Social aspects.
Collective memory > Vietnam.
Ghosts.
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