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Curating and re-curating the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq /

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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, end...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sylvester, Christine, 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Social aspects > United States.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Social aspects > United States.
Curatorship > United States.
Military museums > United States.
War memorials > United States.
Collective memory > United States.
Memory > Social aspects > United States.
War > Historiography.
War and society > United States.
War in literature.
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.