Looking Back on the Vietnam War: Twenty-first-Century Perspectives

Medientyp: E-Book

Titel: Looking Back on the Vietnam War : Twenty-first-Century Perspectives

Erschienen: New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, [2016]
[Online-Ausgabe]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource; 6 photographs

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.36019/9780813579962

ISBN: 9780813579962

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Schlagwörter: Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Peace ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 ; HISTORY / General

Art der Reproduktion: [Online-Ausgabe]

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Anmerkungen: restricted access online access with authorization star
In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web

Beschreibung: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- CHRONOLOGY -- NOTE ON THE TEXT -- Introduction: Looking Back on the Vietnam War / Boyle, Brenda M. / Lim, Jeehyun -- 1. Vietnamese Refugees and Internet Memorials: When Does War End and Who Gets to Decide? / Espiritu, Yên Lê -- 2. Broken, but Not Forsaken: Disabled South Vietnamese Veterans in Vietnam and the Vietnamese Diaspora / Tran, Quan Tue -- 3. What Is Vietnamese American Literature? / Nguyen, Viet Thanh -- 4. Viêt Nam and the Diaspora: Absence, Presence, and the Archive / Duong, Lan -- 5. Liberal Humanitarianism and Post–Cold War Cultural Politics: The Case of Le Ly Hayslip / Lim, Jeehyun -- 6. Ann Hui’s Boat People: Documenting Vietnamese Refugees in Hong Kong / Nguyen, Vinh -- 7. “The Deep Black Hole”: Vietnam in the Memories of Australian Veterans and Refugees / Mason, Robert / Jones, Leonie -- 8. Missing Bodies and Homecoming Spirits / Kwon, Heonik -- 9. Agent Orange: Toxic Chemical, Narrative of Suffering, Metaphor for War / Fox, Diane Niblack -- 10. Re-seeing Cambodia and Recollecting The ’Nam: A Vertiginous Critique of the Military Sublime / Schlund-Vials, Cathy J. -- 11. Naturalizing War: The Stories We Tell about the Vietnam War / Boyle, Brenda M. -- APPENDIX A: ARCHIVES -- APPENDIX B: PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2000 -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

More than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the war’s legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war refugees have spawned a wide Vietnamese diaspora, and the United States military remains embroiled in unwinnable wars with eerie echoes of Vietnam. Looking Back on the Vietnam War brings together scholars from a broad variety of disciplines, who offer fresh insights on the war’s psychological, economic, artistic, political, and environmental impacts. Each essay examines a different facet of the war, from its representation in Marvel comic books to the experiences of Vietnamese soldiers exposed to Agent Orange. By putting these pieces together, the contributors assemble an expansive yet nuanced composite portrait of the war and its global legacies. Though they come from diverse scholarly backgrounds, ranging from anthropology to film studies, the contributors are united in their commitment to original research. Whether exploring rare archives or engaging in extensive interviews, they voice perspectives that have been excluded from standard historical accounts. Looking Back on the Vietnam War thus embarks on an interdisciplinary and international investigation to discover what we remember about the war, how we remember it, and why

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