Curating and Re-Curating the American Wars in Vietnam and Iraq 1st Edition

Curating and Re-Curating the American Wars in Vietnam and Iraq 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190840556,0190840552,9780190840570, 0190840579

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0190840579
• ISBN-13: 9780190840570
• Author: Christine Sylvester

This book asks whose vantage points on war are made available, and where, for public consumption; it also questions whose war experiences are not represented, are minimized, or ignored in ways that advantage contemporary militarism. Christine Sylvester looks at four sites of war memory-the National Museum of American History, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, and selected novels and memoirs of the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq-to consider the way war knowledge is embedded in differing sites of memory and display. While the museum shows war aircraft and a laptop computer used by a journalist covering the American war in Iraq, visitors to the Vietnam Memorial or Arlington Cemetery find more prosaic and civilian items on view, such as baby pictures, slices of birthday cake, or even car keys. In addition, memoirs and novels of these wars tend to curate ghastly horrors of wars as experienced by soldiers or civilians. For Sylvester, these sites of war memory and curation provide ways to understand dispersed war authority and interpretation and to consider which sites invite viewers to revere a war and which reflect personal experiences that show the undersides of these wars. Sylvester shows that scholars, policymakers, and other citizens need to consider different types of situated memory and knowledge in order to fully grasp war, rather than idealize it.

Table contents:

Part I Commemorating the American Wars in Vietnam and Iraq
1 America’s Wars in Vietnam and Iraq
2 Museums, Memorials, and Novels as Sites of War Knowledge
Part II Curating Memory and Knowledge of American Wars in Vietnam and Iraq
3 The Smithsonian Curates America’s Wars in Vietnam and Iraq
4 The American Wars in Vietnam and Iraq at a Memorial, Cemetery, and a Traveling Tribute to Veterans
5 Bodies of War Curate the American Wars in Vietnam and Iraq
6 Remembering, Forgetting, Curating, and Re-Curating War

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