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Author | : Kristin Ann Hass |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520920708 |
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 evocative analysis of the site itself illustrates and enriches 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.
Author | : Kristin Ann Hass |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520204133 |
00 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 evocative analysis of the site itself illustrates and enriches 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. 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 evocative analysis of the site itself illustrates and enriches 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.
Author | : Sir John Thomas Jones (bart.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1827 |
Genre | : Peninsular War, 1807-1814 |
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Author | : Sir John Thomas Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1846 |
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Author | : Tim O'Brien |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547420293 |
A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Total Pages | : 1034 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Engineering |
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Author | : Sir John Thomas Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1846 |
Genre | : Peninsular War, 1807-1814 |
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Author | : Marissa Zamora |
Publisher | : WestBow Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2018-09-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1973639696 |
If you want to make God laugh, tell him you have a plan—because things don’t always go our way. And for fifty-five-year-old grandmother Marissa Zamora, her plans to hike the famous Camino de Santiago trails in northern Spain would give God a good laugh. In Carried—A Pilgrim’s Story, author Marissa Zamora shares her inspiring but unexpected journey to follow Saint James’s path from Bilbao, Spain, to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. After eight months of preparation, savings, and planning, she ventures off alone to a foreign country—only to find herself in dire straits as her adventure turns from joy to pain. Her plans to chronicle her journey of a lifetime becomes a spiritual march to overcome the unexpected and find her way—in her hike, in herself, and in Christ. What had started out as an adventure suddenly turned into a true pilgrimage, and Marissa’s story is a testament to the way we must have faith in God’s plans—because the ones we make for ourselves cannot always be trusted.
Author | : Sir John Thomas Jones (bart.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1846 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : John Thomas Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1827 |
Genre | : Peninsular War, 1807-1814 |
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"This work is now put forth merely as professional memoranda of the artillery and engineers' arrangements at the sieges in Spain"--Preface.