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Nothing Ever Dies provides the fullest and best explanation of how the Vietnam War has become so deeply inscribed into national memory. Nguyen’s elegant prose is at once deeply personal, sweepingly panoramic, and hauntingly evocative.
27 de oct. de 2018 · Nothing Ever Dies reveals harsh truths: that war kills people and erases living people's pasts, that we laud soldiers' bravery while ignoring their rape, that pro-war propaganda perpetuates hate with the intent of eliminating human compassion.
10 de feb. de 2022 · Exploring how this troubled memory works in Vietnam, the United States, Laos, Cambodia, and South Korea, the book deals specifically with the Vietnam War and also war in general. He reveals how war is a part of our identity, as individuals and as citizens of nations armed to the teeth.
1 de jun. de 2017 · Viet Thanh Nguyen's Nothing Ever Dies is an elegant, scholarly, and searing exploration of how personal and national identity, ideology, economics, and the power dynamics between countries formerly at war—combined with each nation's industries of war and memory—collectively shape individual and national memories of what the ...
From the author of the bestselling novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both the Americans and the Vietnamese. Nothing Ever Dies, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.
From Nietzsche, Freud, and Paul Ricoeur’s theo-ries of memory and forgetting to Martin Luther King Jr., Thich Nhat Hanh, and Graham Greene’s critiques of the Vietnam War, Nguyen brings a wide range of theorists, philosophers, and texts to traverse the history, memory, and the identity of the war. He examines a wide range of “art,” as ...
11 de abr. de 2016 · Drawing from this war, Nguyen offers a lesson for all wars by calling on us to recognize not only our shared humanity but our ever-present inhumanity. This is the only path to reconciliation...
