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9781107659421: Ghosts of War in Vietnam
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ISBN 10 : 1107659426 ISBN 13 : 9781107659421
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This book is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls of the war dead. These ghosts of war play an important part in postwar Vietnamese historical narrative and imagination, and Heonik Kwon explores the intimate ritual ties with these unsettled identities which still survive in Vietnam today as well as the actions of those who hope to liberate these hidden but vital historical presences from their uprooted social existence. Taking a unique approach to the cultural history of war, he introduces gripping stories about spirits claiming social justice and about his own efforts to wrestle with the physical and spiritual presence of ghosts. Although these actions are fantastical, this book shows how examining their stories can illuminate critical issues of war and collective memory in Vietnam and the modern world more generally.

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À propos de l'auteur

Heonik Kwon is Lecturer at the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh. He is the author of After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai (2006).

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1107659426
ISBN 13 
9781107659421
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
234
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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