Book Review of Performing Remembering: Women’s Memories of War in Vietnam, by Rivka Syd Eisner

Book Review of Performing Remembering: Women’s Memories of War in Vietnam, by Rivka Syd Eisner

This essay reviews Performing Remembering: Women’s Memories of War in Vietnam, by Rivka Syd Eisner. Performing Remembering serves as an ethnographic study and oral history, recounting the wartime experiences of the Former Women Political Prisoner Performance Group, a volunteer musical theatre troupe...

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Main Author: John Edward Ellis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Virginia Tech Libraries 2019-04-01
Series:Journal of Veterans Studies
Subjects:
vietnam, veterans, performance, remembering, performing, oral history, ethnography
Online Access:https://journal-veterans-studies.org/articles/110
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description This essay reviews Performing Remembering: Women’s Memories of War in Vietnam, by Rivka Syd Eisner. Performing Remembering serves as an ethnographic study and oral history, recounting the wartime experiences of the Former Women Political Prisoner Performance Group, a volunteer musical theatre troupe comprised of Vietnamese veterans from Vietnam’s Anti-French War and American War.
topic vietnam, veterans, performance, remembering, performing, oral history, ethnography
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