{"id":11088,"date":"2021-03-01T10:50:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T09:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wh\/?page_id=11088"},"modified":"2021-03-01T10:50:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T09:50:50","slug":"dr-aleksandra-musial-victimhood-in-american-narratives-of-the-war-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wh\/najwazniejsze-osiagniecia-badawcze\/dr-aleksandra-musial-victimhood-in-american-narratives-of-the-war-in-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"dr Aleksandra Musia\u0142 &#8211; Victimhood in American Narratives of the War in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row el_class=&#8221;container&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;POLISH&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1612514765073-cfc2f9ae-5da2&#8243;]\r\n                <div class=\"text-modules\">\r\n                    <div class=\"container\">\r\n                        <h3 class=\"page-title text__title\">Victimhood in American Narratives of the War in Vietnam<\/h3>\r\n                        <div class=\"text-modules__content\"><p>Dr Aleksandra Musia\u0142<\/p>\n<p><em>Victimhood in American Narratives of the War in Vietnam<\/em> (Nowy Jork i Londyn: Routledge, 2020)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Monografia powraca do ameryka\u0144skiego kanonu powie\u015bci, memuar\u00f3w, reporta\u017cy oraz film\u00f3w dotycz\u0105cych wojny w Wietnamie, aby krytycznie oceni\u0107 centralne znaczenie dyskursu ameryka\u0144skiej wiktymizacji w wyobra\u017ani Amerykan\u00f3w oraz prze\u015bledzi\u0107 strategie reprezentacji, kt\u00f3re czyni\u0105 z ameryka\u0144skich \u017co\u0142nierzy i weteran\u00f3w najwa\u017cniejsze ofiary tej wojny. Badaj\u0105c szczeg\u00f3\u0142owo obraz wietnamskiego krajobrazu odtworzony przez ameryka\u0144skich autor\u00f3w i re\u017cyser\u00f3w, ksi\u0105\u017cka przedstawia tez\u0119, wedle kt\u00f3rej Wietnam zosta\u0142 przekszta\u0142cony w ameryka\u0144ski mit, wskazuj\u0105c jednocze\u015bnie, jak proces ten doprowadzi\u0142 do dehistoryzacji i mistyfikacji konfliktu, kt\u00f3re przys\u0142oni\u0142y jego historyczne i polityczne realia. Monografia nast\u0119pnie rozpatruje przedstawienia ofiar wojny \u2013 wietnamskich cywil\u00f3w i ameryka\u0144skich \u017co\u0142nierzy \u2013 w \u015bwietle ich ideologicznego znaczenia i zastosowa\u0144. Ostatecznie ksi\u0105\u017cka stara si\u0119 pokaza\u0107, w jaki spos\u00f3b w relacji w\u0142adzy kwestia statusu ofiary mo\u017ce zosta\u0107 zideologizowana, oraz zdemitologizowa\u0107 \u201eWietnam\u201d obecny w ameryka\u0144skiej narracji kulturowej.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201eW tej rzetelnie opracowanej i wci\u0105gaj\u0105co napisanej ksi\u0105\u017cce Aleksandra Musia\u0142 tworzy niezb\u0119dn\u0105 narracj\u0119 o utraconej okazji do nauki dla narodu ameryka\u0144skiego. Badaj\u0105c wielogatunkowy kanon ameryka\u0144skich tekst\u00f3w dotycz\u0105cych Wietnamu \u2013 czy raczej \u201eWietnamu\u201d \u2013 autorka ujawnia wymazane konteksty historyczne oraz inne wypaczenia, kt\u00f3re da\u0142y pocz\u0105tek paradoksalnej koncepcji Amerykan\u00f3w jako ofiar swego w\u0142asnego okrucie\u0144stwa. To odwa\u017cne, napisane w sam\u0105 por\u0119 studium auto-mitologizacji na wielk\u0105 skal\u0119 jest r\u00f3wnie\u017c pilnym wezwaniem do ponownego przemy\u015blenia wa\u017cnego wydarzenia historycznego na potrzeby postheroicznego wieku\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Krzysztof Majer, literaturoznawca w Zak\u0142adzie Literatury Ameryka\u0144skiej na Uniwersytecie \u0141\u00f3dzkim,<br \/>\nt\u0142umacz <em>Depesz <\/em>Michaela Herra na j\u0119zyk polski<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201ePos\u0142uguj\u0105c si\u0119 przejrzyst\u0105, woln\u0105 od \u017cargonu proz\u0105, Aleksandra Musia\u0142 analizuje strategie retoryczne u\u017cyte do stworzenia Mitu o wojnie w Wietnamie oraz ukazania agresor\u00f3w jako ofiar. Zr\u0119cznie poruszaj\u0105c si\u0119 mi\u0119dzy histori\u0105 a literatur\u0105, Musia\u0142 ostatecznie obala wyobra\u017cenia o tym konflikcie jako o <em>ameryka\u0144skiej<\/em> tragedii\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Giorgio Mariani, Uniwersytet \u201eLa Sapienza\u201d w Rzymie,<br \/>\nautor <em>Waging War: Peacefighting in American Literature<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201ePonad czterdzie\u015bci lat po jej zako\u0144czeniu wojna w Wietnamie wci\u0105\u017c odgrywa wa\u017cn\u0105 rol\u0119 w ameryka\u0144skich narracjach kulturowych. <em>Victimhood in American Narratives of the War in Vietnam<\/em> wyja\u015bnia, jak wojna, kt\u00f3ra zrujnowa\u0142a Wietnam i podzieli\u0142a ameryka\u0144sk\u0105 opini\u0119 publiczn\u0105, zosta\u0142a zmitologizowana i odpolityczniona w spos\u00f3b, kt\u00f3ry pozwoli\u0142 przyw\u00f3dcom USA z obu partii politycznych wykorzysta\u0107 j\u0105 w celu zwi\u0119kszenia poparcia dla p\u00f3\u017aniejszych operacji militarnych\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Gina Weaver Yount, South Nazarene University,<br \/>\nautorka <em>Ideologies of Forgetting: Rape in the Vietnam War<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>[\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;ENGLISH&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1612514765101-0db80c2c-37cc&#8221;]\r\n                <div class=\"text-modules\">\r\n                    <div class=\"container\">\r\n                        <h3 class=\"page-title text__title\">Victimhood in American Narratives of the War in Vietnam<\/h3>\r\n                        <div class=\"text-modules__content\"><p>Aleksandra Musia\u0142, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p><em>Victimhood in American Narratives of the War in Vietnam<\/em> (New York and London: Routledge, 2020)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This book revisits the American canon of novels, memoirs, and films about the war in Vietnam, in order to reassess critically the centrality of the discourse of American victimization in the country\u2019s imagination of the conflict, and to trace the strategies of representation that establish American soldiers and veterans as the most significant victims of the war. By investigating in detail the imagery of the Vietnamese landscape recreated by American authors and directors, the volume explores the proposition that Vietnam has been turned into an American myth, demonstrating that the process resulted in a dehistoricization and mystification of the conflict that obscured its historical and political realities. Against this background, representations of the war\u2019s victims\u2014Vietnamese civilians and American soldiers\u2014are then considered in light of their ideological meanings and uses. Ultimately, the book seeks to demonstrate how, in a relation of power, the question of victimhood can become ideologized, transforming into both a discourse and a strategy of representation\u2014and in doing so, to demythologize something of the &#8222;Vietnam&#8221; of American cultural narrative.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this well-researched and engagingly written book, Aleksandra Musia\u0142 weaves an indispensable narrative of a nation\u2019s wasted learning opportunity. Exploring the canon of multigeneric American texts on Vietnam\u2014or rather \u201cVietnam\u201d\u2014the author reveals the erasures of historical context and other obfuscations that gave rise to the paradoxical construction of the United States as the main victim of its own atrocities. A timely and courageous investigation of large-scale self-mythologizing, this is an urgent call to rethink a major historical event for the benefits of a post-heroic age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Krzysztof Majer, scholar of North American literature at the University of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a<br \/>\nand Polish translator of Michael Herr\u2019s <em>Dispatches<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a clear, jargon-free prose, Aleksandra Musia\u0142 dissects the rhetorical strategies through which the Myth of the Vietnam War was constructed, and aggressors turned into victims. Moving deftly between history and literature, Musia\u0142 offers a definitive debunking of constructions of the war as an <em>American<\/em> tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Giorgio Mariani, author of <em>Waging War: Peacefighting in American Literature<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver forty years later, the Vietnam War continues to loom large in American cultural narratives. Victimhood in American Narratives of the War in Vietnam explains how this war that devastated Vietnam and split the American public came to be mythologized and depoliticized in such a way that it has been uniquely available for U.S. leaders of both political parties to bolster support for subsequent military action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Gina Weaver Yount, Associate Professor at Southern Nazarene University<br \/>\nand author of <em>Ideologies of Forgetting: Rape in the Vietnam War<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>[\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]\r\n                <div class=\"text-modules\">\r\n                    <div class=\"container\">\r\n                        \r\n                        <div class=\"text-modules__content\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-11089 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/OSI\u0104GNI\u0118CIA\/9780367438036.jpg\" alt=\"ok\u0142adka ksi\u0105\u017cki Aleksandry Musia\u0142 Victimhood in American Narratives of the War in Vietnam\" width=\"350\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/OSI\u0104GNI\u0118CIA\/9780367438036.jpg 350w, https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/OSI\u0104GNI\u0118CIA\/9780367438036-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row el_class=&#8221;container&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_tta_tabs][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;POLISH&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1612514765073-cfc2f9ae-5da2&#8243;][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;ENGLISH&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1612514765101-0db80c2c-37cc&#8221;][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row] [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wh\/najwazniejsze-osiagniecia-badawcze\/dr-aleksandra-musial-victimhood-in-american-narratives-of-the-war-in-vietnam\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9930,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11091,"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11088\/revisions\/11091"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.edu.pl\/wydzial\/wh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}