Looking back on the Vietnam War : twenty-first century perspectives /

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Imprint:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	xv, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	War culture War culture.
Subject:	Vietnam War (1961-1975) Vietnam War (1961-1975) -- Peace. Vietnam War, 1961-1975. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Peace.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10807754

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Varying Form of Title:	Vietnam War
Other authors / contributors:	Boyle, Brenda M., 1957- Lim, Jeehyun, 1976- editor.
ISBN:	9780813579948 0813579945 9780813579931 0813579937
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index.
Summary:	"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 narratives often tell a limited story, one often told in isolation from other disciplinary perspectives. Looking Back suggests we take stock of the stories absent from dominant narratives of the War, and that we do that stock-taking through the lenses of multiple disciplines and perspectives. Based on the idea that Vietnamese stories, both those set in the postwar Viet Nam and also in the Vietnamese diaspora, are crucial to understanding the Vietnam War, this volume brings together essays examining Vietnamese and diasporic conditions with those examining U.S. traces of the War. Looking Back also attends to the significance of the present in the act of recollecting as it reflects on the war's echoes in the current era of endless U.S. warring. The volume engages in a dual looking back--both in the sense of remembering and of reconsidering--to offer a fuller picture of the Vietnam War by showing the perspectives of groups and issues that have largely escaped serious attention in popular narratives of the war"--
Other form:	Online version: Looking back on the Vietnam War New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2016 9780813579955

Table of Contents:

Chronology
Note on the Text
Introduction: Looking Back at the Vietnam War
Chapter 1. Vietnamese Refugees and Internet Memorials: When Does War End and Who Gets to Decide?
Chapter 2. Broken, but Not Forsaken: Disabled South Vietnamese Veterans in Vietnam and the Vietnamese Diaspora
Chapter 3. What Is Vietnamese American Literature?
Chapter 4. Vi?t Nam and the Diaspora: Absence, Presence, and the Archive
Chapter 5. Liberal Humanitarianism and Post-Cold War Cultural Politics: The Case of Le Ly Hayslip
Chapter 6. Ann Hui's Boat People: Documenting Vietnamese Refugees in Hong Kong
Chapter 7. "The Deep Black Hole": Vietnam in the Memories of Australian Veterans and Refugees
Chapter 8. Missing Bodies and Homecoming Spirits
Chapter 9. Agent Orange: Toxic Chemical, Narrative of Suffering, Metaphor for War
Chapter 10. Re-Seeing Cambodia and Recollecting The 'Nam: A Vertiginous Critique of the Military Sublime
Chapter 11. Naturalizing War: The Stories We Tell about the Vietnam War
Appendix A. Archives
Appendix B. Publications since 2000
Notes on Contributors
Index

Looking back on the Vietnam War : twenty-first century perspectives /

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