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  title info:
    title: Curating and re-curating the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq
  name:
    name part: Sylvester, Christine
    name part: 1949-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 222 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Curating and Re-Curating the American Wars in Vietnam and Iraq is about looking for war knowledge in unexpected places, such as war memorials, museum exhibitions, war cemeteries and novels and memoirs. What one finds there can contradict the prescribed understandings of a particular war or, say, endorse the tendency to treat military personnel as heroes to be thanked. Especially when 'ordinary curators' display memories of their war experiences through the objects left at memorials and graves, or through the words they curate in war novels, the observer/reader gets a glimpse of actual lives lost, futures cut short and even some of the dull noncombat jobs military do in war zones. The main point is that war is a social institution and its experiences are plentiful and decentralized. Many scholars and other interested readers look for war in the decisions and movements of militaries and states, but this book's difference is that it focuses on how a variety of formal and informal war curators present the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq at a moment of American militarism.
  table of contents: Introduction: Whose wars are on view? -- America's wars in Vietnam and Iraq -- Museums, memorials, and novels as sites of war knowledge -- The Smithsonian curates America's wars in Vietnam and Iraq -- Curating the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq at a memorial, cemetery, and a traveling tribute to veterans -- Bodies of war curate the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq -- Remembering, forgetting, curating, and re-curating war.
  note: Christine Sylvester.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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    geographic code: a-iq---
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Iraq War, 2003-2011
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Curatorship
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Military museums
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: War memorials
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Collective memory
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Memory
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: War
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: War and society
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: War in literature
  classification: DS559.8.S6 S95 2019
  classification: 956.7044/3075
  identifier: 9780190840556
  identifier: 0190840552
  identifier: 2018058374
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181218
    record change date: 20191021075445.0
    record identifier: in00004069005