| #44171 in Books | imusti | 2016-04-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x1.30 x5.80l,.0 | File type: PDF | 384 pages | Harvard University Press||36 of 38 people found the following review helpful.| An Engaging and Empowering Read.|By ElizabethM|Nothing Ever Dies, Vietnam and the Memory of War offers many riches. With great erudition and impeccable scholarship, Viet Thanh Nguyen shows us how the traumatic repercussions of war defy simplification, and how facile it is to misremember the dead. Focusing on the American war in Vietnam, and referencing other conflicts (Korea,||[Nguyen] produces close readings of the novels, films, monuments, and prisons that form ‘the identity of war’ in Vietnam, ‘a face with carefully drawn features, familiar at a glance to the nation’s people.’ Nguyen draws insights f
All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call the American War―a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both nations.
From a kaleidoscope of cultural forms―novels, memoirs, cemeteries, monuments, films, photography, museum exhibi...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War | Viet Thanh Nguyen.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
