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

Looking Back on the Vietnam War : : Twenty-first-Century Perspectives / / Brenda M. Boyle, Jeehyun Lim.

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 embroile...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter RUP eBook-Package 2016
TeilnehmendeR:
Boyle, Brenda M.
Duong, Lan
Espiritu, Yen Le
Fox, Diane Niblack
Jones, Leonie
Kwon, Heonik
Lim, Jeehyun
Mason, Robert
Nguyen, Viet Thanh
Nguyen, Vinh
Schlund-Vials, Cathy J.
Tran, Quan Tue
MitwirkendeR:
Boyle, Brenda M.,
Duong, Lan,
Espiritu, Yên Lê,
Fox, Diane Niblack,
Jones, Leonie,
Kwon, Heonik,
Lim, Jeehyun,
Mason, Robert,
Nguyen, Viet Thanh,
Nguyen, Vinh,
Schlund-Vials, Cathy J.,
Tran, Quan Tue,
HerausgeberIn:
Boyle, Brenda M.,
Lim, Jeehyun,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:War Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 6 photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • CHRONOLOGY
  • NOTE ON THE TEXT
  • Introduction: Looking Back on the Vietnam War
  • 1. Vietnamese Refugees and Internet Memorials: When Does War End and Who Gets to Decide?
  • 2. Broken, but Not Forsaken: Disabled South Vietnamese Veterans in Vietnam and the Vietnamese Diaspora
  • 3. What Is Vietnamese American Literature?
  • 4. Viêt Nam and the Diaspora: Absence, Presence, and the Archive
  • 5. Liberal Humanitarianism and Post-Cold War Cultural Politics: The Case of Le Ly Hayslip
  • 6. Ann Hui's Boat People: Documenting Vietnamese Refugees in Hong Kong
  • 7. "The Deep Black Hole": Vietnam in the Memories of Australian Veterans and Refugees
  • 8. Missing Bodies and Homecoming Spirits
  • 9. Agent Orange: Toxic Chemical, Narrative of Suffering, Metaphor for War
  • 10. Re-seeing Cambodia and Recollecting The 'Nam: A Vertiginous Critique of the Military Sublime
  • 11. Naturalizing War: The Stories We Tell about the Vietnam War
  • APPENDIX A: ARCHIVES
  • APPENDIX B: PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2000
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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