Book Review of Performing Remembering: Women’s Memories of War in Vietnam, by Rivka Syd Eisner

Abstract

This essay reviews Performing Remembering: Women’s Memories of War in Vietnam, by Rivka Syd Eisner. Performing Remembering serves as an ethnographic study and oral history, recounting the wartime experiences of the Former Women Political Prisoner Performance Group, a volunteer musical theatre troupe comprised of Vietnamese veterans from Vietnam’s Anti-French War and American War.

Keywords

• vietnam, veterans, performance, remembering, performing, oral history, ethnography