Performing Remembering Women's Memories of War in Vietnam /

• Main Author: Eisner, Rivka Syd (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Contemporary Performance InterActions
• Subjects: Theater-History.; Theater.; Performing arts.; Theatre History.; National/Regional Theatre and Performance.; Performing Arts.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: (Re)Performing the Past in Vietnam
• 2. Performing Survival, Ancestral Inheritance, and the Spirit of Optimism
• 3. Masquerading, (Re)Making Identities, and Familial Commemorations
• 4. Remembering Torture, Returning to Côn Đảo, and the Tradition of "Pain-Taking"
• 5. Answering to Transgenerational Violence.