Transnational memory : circulation, articulation, scales / / edited by Chiara De Cesari and Ann Rigney

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464462903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 3-11-048601-6; 3-11-035910-3; 3-11-038673-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Collana: Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung, , 1613-8961 ; ; Volume 19
• Disciplina: 909
• Soggetti: Collective memory; Memorialization; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction / De Cesari, Chiara / Rigney, Ann -- Part I: Circulation -- From 'District Six' to District 9 and Back: The Plurimedial Production of Travelling Schemata / Erll, Astrid -- Moving Testimony: Human Rights, Palestinian Memory, and the Transnational Public Sphere / Kennedy, Rosanne -- Archive, Memory, and Loss: Constructing Images in the Armenian Diaspora / Baronian, Marie-Aude -- Relational Maps in the Cook Islands Transnational Communities / Küchler, Susanne -- Part II: Articulation -- Multidirectional Memory in Migratory Settings: The Case of Post-Holocaust Germany / Rothberg, Michael -- Slavery and Transnational Memory: The Making of New Publics / Ebron, Paulla A. -- Between the Local, National, and Transnational: Photographic Recording and Memorializing Desire / Edwards, Elizabeth -- Memory, Identity, and Roma Transnational Nationalism / Kapralski, Slawomir -- Imaging Humanity: Socialist Film and Transnational Memories of the War in Vietnam / Schwenkel, Christina -- Part III: Scales -- World Heritage and the Nation-State: A View fromPalestine / De Cesari, Chiara -- Haunting ; Memory: The Extension of Kinship Beyond the Nation / Feuchtwang, Stephan -- Postwar Europe and the Colonial Past in Photographs / Legêne, Susan / Eickhoff, Martijn -- Transnationalism in Reverse: From Yugoslav to Post-Yugoslav Memorial Sites / Kirn, Gal -- Ongoing: Changing Memory and the European Project / Rigney, Ann -- Envoi: Centro di permanenza temporanea / Paci, Adrian -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Index of Names
• Sommario/riassunto: How do memories circulate transnationally and to what effect? How to understand the enduring role of national memories and their simultaneous reconfiguration under globalization? Challenging the methodological nationalism that has until recently dominated the study of memory and heritage, this book charts the rich production of memory across and beyond national borders. Arguing for the fruitfulness of a transnational as distinct from a global approach, it places the issues of circulation, articulation and the scales of remembrance at the centre of its inquiry. In the process, it sheds new light on the ways in which mediation, post-coloniality, migration and regional integration affect both the way we remember and the role of memory in contemporary societies. In this interdisciplinary collection, humanities and social science scholars examine a rich sample of cases from the nineteenth century on, stretching across the globe from Vietnam to Europe and the Middle East, to the USA and the Pacific, and involving a wide range of cultural practices from quilting to films, from photography to heritage sites and monuments. In the process, the volume develops a new theoretical framework while proposing new methodological tools and resources for studying collective remembrance beyond the nation-state.

Ghosts of war in Vietnam / / Heonik Kwon [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791599903321
• Autore: Kwon Heonik <1962->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008
• ISBN: 0-511-38149-2; 1-107-18443-6; 0-511-38821-7; 1-281-25488-6; 0-511-38619-2; 0-511-38722-9; 0-511-80759-7; 0-511-38255-3; 0-511-38436-X; 9786611254889; 0-511-38038-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ; ; 27
• Disciplina: 959.7043
• Soggetti: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Social aspects; Collective memory - Vietnam; Ghosts
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-213) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Ghosts of war -- Mass excavation -- Missing in action -- The phantom leg -- Death in the street -- Transforming ghosts -- Money for ghosts.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is a fascinating 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.