Review of Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam by Thy Phu (Duke University Press)

Thy Phu’s Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam draws on archives of the Vietnam War that center Vietnamese perspectives to complicate the historical and contemporary visual representation of Vietnamese identities that have been filtered through the Western narrative of the Vietnam War. Her book...

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Published in:Lateral (Island Lake) 2023-03, Vol.12 (1)
Main Author: Hawley, Collin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
archive
diaspora
history
identity
memory
photography
postcolonialism
vietnam
visual culture
war
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Summary:Thy Phu’s Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam draws on archives of the Vietnam War that center Vietnamese perspectives to complicate the historical and contemporary visual representation of Vietnamese identities that have been filtered through the Western narrative of the Vietnam War. Her book emphasizes the significance of typically denigrated visual materials including propaganda and vernacular photographs. She focuses on the complex deployment and reception of photographic objects as politicized symbols, sources of memorialization, and identity formation.
ISSN:2469-4053
2469-4053
DOI:10.25158/L12.1.19