| Abstrakt: |
The article discusses the gendered aspects of the Vietnam War, with a particular focus on survivors of the war living in the Thinh Tri commune in Northern Vietnam. According to the author, the trauma experienced by such communities in wartime is shaped both by existing sociocultural understandings of gender and the state's strategic use of gender roles. It is suggested that survivors' collective memory constitutes a counternarrative to Vietnamese national commemoration discourse surrounding the war. Details related to the corporeality of war and philosopher Giorgio Agamben's concept of bare life are presented. Other topics include sacrifice, suffering, and ethnography. |
