{"product_id":"warring-visions-9781478010753","title":"Warring Visions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThy Phu explores photographs produced by dispersed communities throughout Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora, both during and after the Vietnam War, to complicate prominent narratives of conflict and memory and to expand understandings of how war is waged, experienced, and resolved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Thy Phu presents a searing and moving lesson in unlearning US imperialism and its entanglement with photography. Through diverse visual archives, she brilliantly shakes core assumptions about photography and war, including the ‘Vietnam War’—actually an ‘American war’ in Vietnam—and what came to be its iconic photographs and overlooked images. Phu's careful work of upsetting imperial geographies and imaginaries of the Cold War (such as North\/South) brings that war back home to the South Vietnamese diaspora in a way that presciently speaks to the current moment.” -- Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, author of * Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this elegant and insightful study, Thy Phu turns to Vietnamese photographers, considering journalistic work, personal and family photos, reenactments, and artistic uses, all with the intent of exploring how Vietnamese people saw themselves and each other through the lens. From the homeland to the diaspora and back, she shows the power of photography to mobilize nations and communities, commemorate loss and absence, and provoke solidarity. What Phu finally shows, so powerfully and persuasively, is that Vietnamese people have always seen and been seen by themselves if not by others.” -- Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of * The Sympathizer *\u003cbr\u003e\"Intriguing. . . . [Phu] is an elegant, accomplished writer. . . .\" -- Thomas A. Bass * Mekong Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWarring Visions\u003c\/i\u003e ... provokes a reevaluation of war photography, of socialist visuality, of memory, loss and diaspora. Reading it has not displaced the lasting power of the image of Kim Phuc from my visual memory, but it has made me think anew about what the stubborn persistence of this image has rendered invisible.\" -- Hirsch, Marianne * Canadian Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWarring Visions\u003c\/i\u003e is an effective examination of the multifarious ways that the tool of photography signifies. . . . Valuable for anyone interested in visual culture, archival studies, and diasporic identity against the grain of Western visions of imperialism.\" -- Collin Hawley * Lateral *\u003cbr\u003e\"Phu’s book . . . has tremendous importance as a pioneering study of the visual archive produced through national struggle in North and South Vietnam. In fact, I contend that \u003ci\u003eWarring Vision\u003c\/i\u003es is essential reading for anyone interested in the war and its influence on visual culture.\" -- Meghan Tibbits-Lamirande * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Note on Language  ix\u003cbr\u003e Warring Visions: Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Socialist Ways of Seeing Vietnam\u003cbr\u003e 1. Aesthetic Form, Political Content  31\u003cbr\u003e 2. Revolutionary Vietnamese Women, Symbols of Solidarity  83\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Refractions\u003cbr\u003e 3. Reenactment and Remembrance  121\u003cbr\u003e 4. Unhomed: Domestic Images and the Diasporic Art of Recollection  147\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Visual Reunion  187\u003cbr\u003e Notes  195\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  213\u003cbr\u003e Index  227","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408989135191,"sku":"9781478010753","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478010753.jpg?v=1730504987","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/warring-visions-9781478010753","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}