Looking back on the Vietnam War : twenty-first-century perspectives /
"Looking Back on the Vietnam War reflects on the half-century since the 1965 U.S. escalation of conflict in Viet Nam, asking what, how, and why we know about the Vietnam War. While the war in all of its complexities is written about from a number of disciplinary perspectives, those dominant nar...
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| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | War culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: looking back at the Vietnam War / Brenda M. Boyle and Jeehyun Lim
- Vietnamese refugees and Internet memorials: when does war end and who gets to decide? / Yen Lê Espiritu
- Broken, but not forsaken: disabled South Vietnamese veterans in Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora / Quan Tue Tran
- What is Vietnamese American literature? / Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Viet Nam and the diaspora: absence, presence, and the archive / Lan Duong
- Liberal humanitarianism and post-cold war cultural politics: the case of Le Ly Hayslip / Jeehyun Lim
- Ann Hui's boat people: documenting Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong / Vinh Nguyen
- The deep black hole: Vietnam in the memories of Australian veterans and refugees / Robert Mason and Leonie Jones
- Missing bodies and homecoming spirits / Heonik Kwon
- Agent orange: toxic chemical, narrative of suffering, metaphor for war / Diane Niblack Fox
- Re-seeing Cambodia and recollecting the Nam: a vertiginous critique of the military sublime / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
- Naturalizing war: the stories we tell about the Vietnam War / Brenda M. Boyle.