Thomas M Hawley

The Remains of War

Bodies, Politics, and the Search for American Soldiers Unaccounted For in Southeast Asia

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Produktbeschreibung

"Thomas M. Hawley combines theoretical dexterity and voluminous research in a first-rate book on America's tortured Vietnam legacy. By cataloguing the manifold practices that keep the bodies of the absent dead alive, he enables us to understand the nation's obsession with a political and cultural war it continually invents and reinvents at home and abroad."--Steven Johnston, author of "Encountering Tragedy: Rousseau and the Project of Democratic Order"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 155mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780822335382
• ISBN-10: 0822335387
• Artikelnr.: 22300789

Autorenporträt

Thomas M. Hawley

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
1. Body Trouble 1
2. From Unrecoverable to Unaccounted For 39
3. The Body of the Accounted-For Soldier 81
4. "Our Stateside MIAs": The Body of the Vietnam Veteran 115
5. Practices of Memorialization: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Tomb of
the Vietnam War Unknown Soldier, and the POW/MIA Flag 158
6. The Ethics of Accounting 211
Epilogue. Same as It Ever Was 242
Notes 253
Bibliography 261
Index 277