Phu Warring Visions

Photography and Vietnam
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1291-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 263 Seiten

Thy Phu explores photographs produced by dispersed communities throughout Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora, both during and after the Vietnam War, to complicate prominent narratives of conflict and memory and to expand understandings of how war is waged, experienced, and resolved.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Phu, Thy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Note on Language ix
Warring Visions: Introduction 1
Part I. Socialist Ways of Seeing Vietnam
1. Aesthetic Form, Political Content 31
2. Revolutionary Vietnamese Women, Symbols of Solidarity 83
Part II. Refractions
3. Reenactment and Remembrance 121
4. Unhomed: Domestic Images and the Diasporic Art of Recollection 147
Epilogue: Visual Reunion 187
Notes 195
Bibliography 213
Index 227

Über Autor(innen)

Thy Phu is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto. She is coeditor of Feeling Photography, also published by Duke University Press, and Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada. She is also author of Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture.