Tangled memories : the Vietnam War, the AIDS epidemic, and the politics of remembering af Marita Sturken (1957-) (Bog)

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

Summary: This fascinating investigation into the production of American cultural memory focuses on two of the most traumatic and contested events in recent U.S. history: the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic. Each, Marita Sturken argues, disrupts our conventional understanding of nationhood, identity, and American culture. She brilliantly compares the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the AIDS Quilt as key sites where cultural memory is produced and debated. While debunking the characterization of the United States as a culture of amnesia, Sturken shows that remembering is itself a form of forgetting, and memory an inventive social practice

Forfatter: Marita Sturken (1957-)

Forlag: University of California Press

Udgivelsesår: 1997

Sider: 368

Sprog: Engelsk