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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Hass, Kristin Ann. "Remaking the Nation with Purple Hearts and Fishing Lures: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and American Memory," Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, January 1995.
This dissertation is about war and memory and bodies and things and the connections between them; it is an exploration of the thousands of offerings carried by ordinary Americans to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. It argues that the liminal, contested place of the Vietnam War in American culture has disrupted the expectation that dead soldiers could be retired to a stoic, martyred memory of heroism and sacrifice, and in so doing has disrupted American memorial practices. This dissertation argues that the gifts Americans bring to the Wall are part of a continuing public negotiation about patriotism and nationalism, and that these things forge a new mode of public commemoration and a recast memory of both the Vietnam War and American community.
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