Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Hardcover

Hass, Kristin Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520204131 ISBN 13: 9780520204133

Verlag: University of California Press, 1998

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Book by Hass Kristin Ann

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"In this fascinating work, Kristin Ann Hass studies the attempts by Americans to come to terms with the Vietnam War and its legacy in American culture."--"Virginia Quarterly Review

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On May 9, 1990, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a ring with letter, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, a baseball, a photo album, an ace of spades and a pie were some of the objects left at the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial. For Kristin Hass, this eclectic sampling represents an attempt by ordinary Americans to come to terms with a multitude of unnamed losses as well as to take part in the ongoing debate of how this war should be remembered. Hass explores the restless memory of the Vietnam War and an American public still grappling with its commemoration. In doing so it considers the ways Americans have struggled to renegotiate the meanings of national identity, patriotism, community and the place of the soldier, in the aftermath of a war that ruptured the ways in which all of these things have been traditionally defined. Hass contextualizes her study of this phenomenon within the history of American funerary traditions (in particular non-Anglo traditions in which material offerings are common), the history of war memorials, and the changing symbolic meaning of war. Her analysis of the site itself illustrates her larger theses regarding the creation of public memory and the problem of remembering war and the resulting causalities - in this case not only 58,000 soldiers, but also conceptions of masculinity, patriotism, and working-class pride and idealism.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0520204131
• ISBN 13: 9780520204133
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 205