{"product_id":"looking-back-on-the-vietnam-war-twentyfirstcentury-perspectives-war-culture-9780813579948","title":"Looking Back on the Vietnam War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrings together scholars from a broad variety of disciplines, who offer fresh insights on the Vietnam 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A collection of studies on the way the war is being remembered and commemorated … The diasporic theme is a welcome counterbalance to the US-centered canon that obscures the presence of the Vietnamese people in their own struggle for independence and all but elides them in studies of the postwar years ... Recommended.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"It is a crucial and timely moment to revisit the meanings of the Vietnam War. This book is a hugely valuable reassessment of the war's legacies and cultural impact.\" -- Marita Sturken * author of Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering *\u003cbr\u003e\"We're just now barely getting a grip on the myriad aftermaths of the Vietnam War. I enthusiastically urge anyone interested in wars or 'post-wars' to read this fine book--slowly.\" -- Cynthia Enloe * author of Globalization and Militarism, updated edition *\u003cbr\u003e\"This superb volume brings together a remarkable group of scholars whose attention to disaporic sensibilities, war memory, and contrapuntal narratives fundamentally remakes our understanding of the Vietnam War's cultural politics.\" -- Mark Philip Bradley * The University of Chicago *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLooking Back on the Vietnam War\u003c\/i\u003e is haunting in its unflinching critique and intervention to denaturalize warfare and disentangle its afterlife. It is most sublime in rupturing once conventional narratives.\" -- Linda Trinh Vo * University of California, Irvine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChronologyNote on the TextIntroduction: Looking Back at the Vietnam WarBrenda M. Boyle and Jeehyun LimChapter 1: Vietnamese Refugees and Internet Memorials: When Does War End and Who Gets to Decide?Y?n Lê EspirituChapter 2: Broken, but Not Forsaken: Disabled South Vietnamese Veterans in Vietnam and the Vietnamese DiasporaQuan Tue TranChapter 3: What Is Vietnamese American Literature?Viet Thanh NguyenChapter 4: Vi?t Nam and the Diaspora: Absence, Presence, and the ArchiveLan DuongChapter 5: Liberal Humanitarianism and Post–Cold War Cultural Politics: The Case of Le Ly HayslipJeehyun LimChapter 6: Ann Hui’s \u003ci\u003eBoat People\u003c\/i\u003e: Documenting Vietnamese Refugees in Hong KongVinh NguyenChapter 7: “The Deep Black Hole”: Vietnam in the Memories of Australian Veterans and RefugeesRobert Mason and Leonie JonesChapter 8: Missing Bodies and Homecoming SpiritsHeonik KwonChapter 9: Agent Orange: Toxic Chemical, Narrative of Suffering, Metaphor for WarDiane Niblack FoxChapter 10: Re-Seeing Cambodia and Recollecting \u003ci\u003eThe ’Nam\u003c\/i\u003e: A Vertiginous Critique of the Military SublimeCathy J. Schlund-VialsChapter 11: Naturalizing War: The Stories We Tell about the Vietnam WarBrenda M. BoyleAppendix A: ArchivesAppendix B: Publications since 2000Notes on ContributorsIndex ","brand":"MW - Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038422106455,"sku":"9780813579948","price":105.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813579948.jpg?v=1750940279","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/looking-back-on-the-vietnam-war-twentyfirstcentury-perspectives-war-culture-9780813579948","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}