Tangled Memories The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering

Name: Tangled Memories The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering
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ISBN: 9780520206205

ISBN-10: 0520206207

ISBN-13: 9780520206205

Edition: 1997

Authors: Marita Sturken

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Analyzing the ways U.S. culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, Marita Sturken argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and "American culture." She examines the relationship of camera images to the production of cultural memory, the mixing of fantasy and reenactment in memory, the role of trauma and survivors in creating cultural comfort, and how discourses of healing can smooth over the tensions of political events. Sturken's discussion encompasses a brilliant comparison of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the AIDS Quilt; her profound reading of the Memorial as a…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/28/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 375
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Camera Images and National Meanings



The Wall and the Screen Memory: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial



Reenactment and the Making of History: The Vietnam War as Docudrama



Spectacles of Memory and Amnesia: Remembering the Persian Gulf War



AIDS and the Politics of Representation



Conversations with the Dead: Bearing Witness in the AIDS Memorial Quilt



Bodies of Commemoration: The Immune System and HIV


Afterword


Notes


Bibliography


Index