Screen LibraryCurating and re-curating the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq /
"Curating and Re-Curating the American Wars in Vietnam and Iraq is about looking for war knowledge in unexpected places, such as war memorials, museum exhibitions, war cemeteries, and novels and memoirs. What one finds there can contradict the prescribed understandings of a particular war or, s...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Curating and Re-Curating the American Wars in Vietnam and Iraq is about looking for war knowledge in unexpected places, such as war memorials, museum exhibitions, war cemeteries, and novels and memoirs. What one finds there can contradict the prescribed understandings of a particular war or, say, endorse the tendency to treat military personnel as heroes to be thanked. Especially when 'ordinary curators' display memories of their war experiences through the objects left at memorials and graves, or through the words they curate in war novels, the observer/reader gets a glimpse of actual live |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 222 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780190840556 (hardback) : 0190840552 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | DS559 |
| CLC: |
G269.712.69 E712.9-05 |
| Call Number: | E712.9-05/S985 |
| 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. |