Curating and re-curating the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq /
We have long saved--and curated--objects from wars to commemorate the war experience. These objects appear at national museums and memorials and in war novels and memoirs. Through them we institutionalize narratives and memories of national identity, power and purpose. This book asks whose vantage p...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | We have long saved--and curated--objects from wars to commemorate the war experience. These objects appear at national museums and memorials and in war novels and memoirs. Through them we institutionalize narratives and memories of national identity, power and purpose. This book asks whose vantage points on the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq are available, and where, for public consumption; it also considers whose war experiences are not represented, are minimized, or ignored in ways that advantage contemporary militarism. In looking at how professional curators, ordinary civilian curator. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190840587 0190840587 9780190840563 0190840560 9780190840570 0190840579 |