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Performing Remembering :

3319736159

9783319736150

3319736140

9783319736143

Performing Remembering :

[Book]

Women's Memories of War in Vietnam /

Rivka Syd Elsner.

Cham :

Palgrave Macmillan,

2018.

1 online resource

Contemporary performance interactions

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; Acknowledgments; Notes; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction: (Re)Performing thePast inVietnam; Meeting thePerformance Group Women1; Orientations; The Cultural Production ofMemory; A Brief History; Memory- andHistory-Making inVietnam; The Impact ofĐổi mới onMemory/History Production; Vietnamese Women: Symbols ofNational Virtue andMoral Corruption; Contextualizing theEmergence ofthePerformance Group; The Former Women Political Prisoner Performance Group; Memory andRemembering inthePerformance Group; Socialist Realist Performance

Optimism, Irony, andaCan ofFish SauceGendering Nationalism andPolitical Commitment; Touring, Remembering, andImagining Côn Đảo Prison; The Prison-School; Prison Performances: Improvising toSurvive; Côn Đảo Commemorations; Staging Collective Resistance onCôn Đảo; Solitary Confinement: Performing Defiance; Teaching Tradition: "Being theChildren ofGreat Heroines"; Vietnam's National Pantheon ofWarrior Heroines; Gendered Legacies ofNational-Filial Devotion; Remembering andLearning "Where They Are Expected toGo"; Ancestral Haunting; The Artistry ofPerforming Tradition

Performing thePatriotic Body UnderConditions ofTortureTransforming Traditions; References; Chapter 3: Masquerading, (Re)Making Identities, andFamilial Commemorations; "A Very Great Woman": Heroic Performativity1; Have YouHeard theStory Yet?; Pictures ofaWartime Heroine; The Telling andtheAlready Told; Revolutionary Performance: Armed Insurgency asMasquerade; Voluntary Sacrifice; Ambivalent Affluence andColonial (Tres)Passing; Doubling Identities toSurvive; Performing andRemembering Revolution; The Substance ofRe-semblance; Looking Luxurious andOverturning Affluence

Public Performances: Restaging thePast attheTrống Đồng StageDramatizing National Character onthePublic Stage: Seven Serious Matters; Frameworks andConcepts; First Rehearsal withthePerformance Group Women; Layout oftheBook; References; Chapter 2: Performing Survival, Ancestral Inheritance, andtheSpirit ofOptimism; Cô Nhựt's House1; Remembering Beyond Binarisms; Optimism: "Without aDoubt"; Performing Performativity: Re-citing National Narratives; Performativity Meets Performance: Powers ofCitation andAlteration; Performing Tradition withTransformation

The Sinful, Sensuous, Sensory Pleasures ofRevolutionRemembering andForgetting Violence; Narrative Pedagogy: How toHide aGrenade inYour Purse; Breaking andRemaking; Radical Revolution intheStreets; Performing Poetry intheColonial Prison; Narrative Inheritance; The Bracelet: Performative Co-marking; "Beyond Words"; Materializing Optimism; The Spirit ofVõ Thị Sáu; Pilgrimage Commemoration: Meeting Võ Thị Sáu; Transgenerational Remembering; References; Chapter 4: Remembering Torture, Returning toCôn Đảo, andtheTradition of"Pain-Taking"; Bullet Wound1; Remembering inGood Company

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This book explores the performances and politics of memory among a group of women war veterans in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Through ethnographic, oral history-based research, it connects the veterans' wartime histories, memory politics, performance practices, recollections of imprisonment and torture, and social activism with broader questions of how to understand and attend to continuing transgenerational violence and trauma. With an extensive introduction and subsequent chapters devoted to in-depth analysis of four women's remarkable life stories, the book explores the performance and performativity of culture; ethnographic oral history practice; personal, collective, and (trans)cultural memory; and the politics of postwar trauma, witnessing, and redress. Through the veterans' dynamic practices of prospective remembering, 'pain-taking', and enduring optimism, it offers new insights into matrices of performance vital to the shared work of social transformation. It will appeal to readers interested in performance studies, memory studies, gender studies, Vietnamese studies, and oral history.

Springer Nature

com.springer.onix.9783319736150

Performing Remembering.

9783319736143

Vietnam War, 1961-1975-- Psychological aspects.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975-- Veterans-- Women, Personal narratives.

HISTORY-- Asia-- Southeast Asia.

Psychological aspects.

HIS-- 048000

Eisner, Rivka Syd

20200823104322.0

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