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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 204 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	War culture War culture.
Subject:	Vietnam War, 1961-1975. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Peace. Peace.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11405126

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Other authors / contributors:	Boyle, Brenda M., 1957- editor. Lim, Jeehyun, 1976- editor.
ISBN:	9780813579955 0813579953 9780813579962 0813579961 9780813579948
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 03, 2016).
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:	Print version: Looking back on the Vietnam War. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2016 9780813579948

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xv, 204 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780813579955 0813579953 9780813579962 0813579961 9780813579948