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Ghosts of War in Vietnam (Hardcover)
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Ghosts of War in Vietnam (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
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This is a fascinating and truly groundbreaking study of the
Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the
lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls of the war
dead. These ghosts of war play an important part in postwar
Vietnamese historical narrative and imagination and Heonik Kwon
explores the intimate ritual ties with these unsettled identities
which still survive in Vietnam today as well as the actions of
those who hope to liberate these hidden but vital historical
presences from their uprooted social existence. Taking a unique
approach to the cultural history of war, he introduces gripping
stories about spirits claiming social justice and about his own
efforts to wrestle with the physical and spiritual presence of
ghosts. Although these actions are fantastical, this book shows how
examining their stories can illuminate critical issues of war and
collective memory in Vietnam and the modern world more generally.
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