Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War

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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War is a nonfiction work by Viet Thanh Nguyen that examines how the Vietnam War is remembered, represented, and memorialized across cultures, nations, and media.

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instanceOf cultural studies work
literary criticism
nonfiction book
academicDiscipline American studies
Asian American studies NERFINISHED
cultural studies
memory studies
argues that both victims and perpetrators must be remembered
that memory is intertwined with forgetting
that war memory is shaped by power and inequality
author Viet Thanh Nguyen NERFINISHED
awarded John G. Cawelti Award NERFINISHED
Ralph Waldo Emerson Award NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
examines films
memorials
museums
novels
photography
popular culture
focusesOn how the Vietnam War is remembered in Vietnam
how the Vietnam War is remembered in the United States
transnational memory of the Vietnam War
genre nonfiction
hasPerspective comparative US–Vietnam perspective
critical theory perspective
diasporic Vietnamese perspective
language English
pageCount approximately 384
publicationYear 2016
publisher Harvard University Press NERFINISHED
relatedWork Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America NERFINISHED
The Sympathizer NERFINISHED
settingContext post–Vietnam War era
subject American literature
Vietnam War NERFINISHED
Vietnamese diaspora
collective memory
cultural politics
ethics of memory
representation of war
trauma and remembrance
war memory
war representation in film
war representation in literature
war representation in visual culture
theorizes a just memory of war
timePeriodDiscussed Cold War NERFINISHED
post–Cold War era

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Viet Thanh Nguyen notableWork Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War