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

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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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Main Author: Sylvester, Christine, 1949- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : 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.
Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Guerre en Irak, 2003-2011 > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Conservation > États-Unis.
Art et science militaires > Musées > États-Unis.
Monuments aux morts > États-Unis.
Mémoire collective > États-Unis.
Guerre > Historiographie.
Guerre et société > États-Unis.
Guerre dans la littérature.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Collective memory
Curatorship
Memory > Social aspects
Military museums
Social aspects
War and society
War in literature
War memorials
Iraq
United States
1961-2011
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.