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Bleakney, Julia Norma.

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Revisiting Vietnam: Memoirs, memorials, museums (Ron Kovic, Michael Herr, John Balaban, Tim O'Brien, Bruce Weigl).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Revisiting Vietnam: Memoirs, memorials, museums (Ron Kovic, Michael Herr, John Balaban, Tim O'Brien, Bruce Weigl)./
Author:	Bleakney, Julia Norma.
Description:	297 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-06, Section: A, page: 2199.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-06A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3137157
ISBN:	0496843478

Revisiting Vietnam: Memoirs, memorials, museums (Ron Kovic, Michael Herr, John Balaban, Tim O'Brien, Bruce Weigl).
Bleakney, Julia Norma.

Revisiting Vietnam: Memoirs, memorials, museums (Ron Kovic, Michael Herr, John Balaban, Tim O'Brien, Bruce Weigl). - 297 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-06, Section: A, page: 2199.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2004.

This dissertation analyzes the memorializing practices of American veterans of the Vietnamese-American War at several of the most significant contemporary sites of memory in the United States and Vietnam. These sites include veterans' memoirs (Ron Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July, Michael Herr's Dispatches, John Balaban's Remembering Heaven's Face, Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried , and Bruce Weigl's The Circle of Hanh, among others); museum exhibits at the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago and the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History; traveling and on-line replicas of the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial; and tourism to such sites in Vietnam as the Hoa Lo Prison, the Cu Chi Tunnels, the War Remnants Museum, and the My Lai Memorial.

ISBN: 0496843478Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

Revisiting Vietnam: Memoirs, memorials, museums (Ron Kovic, Michael Herr, John Balaban, Tim O'Brien, Bruce Weigl).
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520 $a My dissertation examines the performance and production of trauma and healing at these sites of memory, contrasts official and veteran-led memorials in the United States, and considers how memorializing in Vietnam challenges American veterans' memories of the war. Because war memorializing has, since the late 1960s, shifted focus from national soul-searching to personal identity and recovery, I emphasize the ways that contemporary understandings of the war are shaped more by memory than by history. The dissertation critiques the proliferation of veterans' narratives produced at various sites of memory, narratives that are often detached from the specific history of the war and its political controversies, and that are shaped by the myth that no single master narrative exists to explain the war.
520 $a Using theories from memory studies, including scholarship on trauma and cultural memory, and empirical data gathered during my field research in the U.S. and Vietnam, I examine how veterans' memorializing practices have become more individualistic, commodified, and conservative since the early 1980s. With the proliferation of popular psychology, the widespread acceptance of post-traumatic stress disorder, political attempts to redefine the war as a noble cause, the rise of Prisoner of War/Missing in Action movement, and changes in national commemorations and personal memory practices, thousands of individual narratives create en masse a new master narrative of the Vietnamese-American War that presents it ahistorically, apolitically, and patriotically.
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