Tangled memories

Description:

This fascinating investigation into the production of American cultural memory focuses on two of the most traumatic and contested events in recent U.S. history: the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic. Each, Marita Sturken argues, disrupts our conventional understanding of nationhood, identity, and American culture. She brilliantly compares the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the AIDS Quilt as key sites where cultural memory is produced and debated. While debunking the characterization of the United States as a culture of amnesia, Sturken shows that remembering is itself a form of forgetting, and memory an inventive social practice.

subjects: AIDS (Disease),  History,  Influence,  Memory,  Motion pictures and history,  Persian Gulf War, 1991,  Political aspects,  Political aspects of Memory,  Political culture,  Popular culture,  Television and history,  Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975,  Vietnam war, 1961-1975,  Aids (disease), united states,  New York Times reviewed,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Anthropology,  Cultural,  POLITICAL SCIENCE,  Public Policy,  Cultural Policy,  Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.),  Politics,  Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome,  Television,  Motion Pictures as Topic,  Mémoire,  Aspect politique,  Mythes politiques,  Histoire,  Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975,  Sida,  Guerre du golfe Persique, 1991,  Culture populaire,  Télévision et histoire,  Cinéma et histoire,  Aids,  Golfkrieg,  Kollektives Gedächtnis,  Vietnamkrieg,  Collectief geheugen,  Vietnam-oorlog,  Politieke cultuur,  Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer

Places: United States

Times: 20th century