Four Decades on

Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War
Herausgeber: Laderman, Scott; Martini, Edwin A

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780822354628
• ISBN-10: 0822354624
• Artikelnr.: 36608813

Autorenporträt

Scott Laderman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. He is the author of Tours of Vietnam: War, Travel Guides, and Memory, also published by Duke University Press. Edwin A. Martini is Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of History at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty and Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975–2000.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: National Amnesia, Transnational Memory, and the Legacies of
the Second Indochina War / Scott Laderman and Edwin A. Martini 1
1. Legacies Foretold: Excavating the Roots of Postwar Viet Nam / Ngo Vinh
Long 16
2. Viet Nam and "Vietnam" in American History and Memory / Walter L. Hixson
44
3. "The Mainspring in This Country Has Been Broken": America's Battered
Sense of Self and the Emergence of the Vietnam Syndrome / Alexander Bloom
58
4. Cold War in a Vietnamese Community / Heonik Kwon 84
5. The Ambivalence of Reconciliation in Contemporary Vietnamese
Memoryscapes / Christina Schwenkel 103
6. Remembering War, Dreaming Peace: On Cosmopolitanism, Compassion, and
Literature / Viet Thanh Nguyen 132
7. Viêt Nam's Growing Pains: Postsocialist Cinema Development and
Transnational Politics / Mariam B. Lam 155
8. A Fishy Affair: Vietnamese Seafood and the Confrontation with U.S.
Neoliberalism / Scott Laderman 183
9. Agent Orange: Coming to Terms with a Transnational Legacy / Diane
Niblack Fox 207
10. Refuge to Refuse: Seeking Balance in the Vietnamese Environmental
Imagination / Charles Waugh 242
11. Missing in Action in the Twenty-First Century / H. Bruce Franklin 259
Bibliography 297
About the Contributors 313
Index 315