‘Objectifying’ the War. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a Secular Message Board.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. has become one of the most important cultural signifiers of the nation. Only what it signifies is far from clear. ‘A place of healing’ is a frequently applied epithet; in conjunction with partial memory loss; but ‘healing’ does not work without prior...

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Main Author: Adi Wimmer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 2006-06-01
Series:ELOPE
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Online Access:https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/elope/article/view/3366