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Four decades on : Vietnam, the United States, and the legacies of the Second Indochina War / Scott Laderman and Edwin A. Martini, eds.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2013 Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Laderman, Scott, 1971-
Martini, Edwin A., 1975-
Series:
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Influence.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Vietnam.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States.
Vietnam--History--1975-.
Vietnam.
United States--History--1969-.
United States.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (345 p.)
Place of Publication:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Historians, anthropologists, and literary critics examine the legacies of the Second Indochina War, or what most Americans call the Vietnam War, nearly forty years after the United States finally left Vietnam.
Contents:
Introduction: national amnesia, transnational memory, and the legacies of the Second Indochina War / Scott Laderman and Edwin Martini
Legacies foretold : excavating the roots of postwar Vietnam / Ngo Vinh Long
Vietnam and "Vietnam" in American history and memory / Walter Hixson
"The mainspring in this country has been broken": America's battered sense of self and the emergence of the Vietnam Syndrome / Alexander Bloom
Cold war in a Vietnamese community / Heonik Kwon
The ambivalence of reconciliation : un/settled pasts in contemporary memoryscapes in Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel
Remembering war, dreaming peace : on cosmopolitanism, compassion, and literature / Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Nam's growing pains : postsocialist cinema development and transnational politics / Mariam B. Lam
A fishy affair : Vietnamese seafood and the confrontation with U.S. neoliberalism / Scott Laderman
Agent Orange: coming to terms with a transnational legacy / Diane Niblack Fox
Refuge to refuse in one generation : seeking balance in the Vietnamese environmental imagination / Charles Waugh
Missing in action in the 21st century / H. Bruce Franklin.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9780822354741
0822354748
9780822378822
0822378825
OCLC:
1142342100

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