Year: 2017, 2017
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>In dialogue with the critical scholarship on war and remembrance, my research deals with the construction, contestation and negotiation of collective memory in contemporary Vietnam with a focus on commemorations devoted to dead soldiers. Utilizing the methodologies of cultural studies and ethnography, this research seeks to comprehend the politics of memory which characterize collective… more Full Text: POLITICS OF MEMORY: (RE)CONSTRUCTION OF THE PAST IN POST-SOCIALIST VIETNAM A Thesis Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT …