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Nothing ever dies : Vietnam and the memory of war / Viet Thanh Nguyen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Social aspects.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Art and the war.
- Memory--Sociological aspects.
- Memory.
- War and society.
- Art and war.
- Identity (Psychology) in art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Nothing Ever Dies, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the bestselling novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both the Americans and the Vietnamese.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue
- Just Memory
- 1. On Remembering One’s Own
- 2. On Remembering Others
- 3. On the Inhumanities
- 4. On War Machines
- 5. On Becoming Human
- 6. On Asymmetry
- 7. On Victims and Voices
- 8. On True War Stories
- 9. On Powerful Memory
- Just Forgetting
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Acknowledgments
- Credits
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780674969865
- 0674969863
- 9780674969889
- 067496988X
- OCLC:
- 945552988
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