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Curating and re-curating the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq / Christine Sylvester.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sylvester, Christine, 1949- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Social aspects--United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Collective memory--United States.
- Collective memory.
- Memory--Social aspects--United States.
- Memory.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Social aspects--United States.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- War memorials--United States.
- War memorials.
- War and society--United States.
- War and society.
- War in literature.
- Military museums--United States.
- Military museums.
- Curatorship--United States.
- Curatorship.
- War--Historiography.
- War.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- Christine Sylvester's book considers locations of war knowledge that are often overlooked by scholars in the social sciences and also by civilians who have an interest in understanding these wars. She takes readers to the permanent exhibition of war at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and its traveling facsimile, to Section 60 of the Arlington National Cemetery where military killed in Iraq are buried, and to well-regarded novels and memoirs about these wars. Across vastly different sites of war knowledge, Sylvester considers whose war appears where, how it is curated, and whether some sites re-curate commonplace understandings of these wars by highlighting experiences war experts can neglect.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-084057-9
- 0-19-084058-7
- 0-19-084056-0
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