Looking Back on the Vietnam War: Twenty-first-Century Perspectives
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.
 
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Looking Back on the Vietnam War: Twenty-first-Century Perspectives
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.
 
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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.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813579931
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 06/17/2016
Series: War Culture
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

BRENDA M. BOYLE is an associate professor of English at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. She was a military intelligence officer in West Germany during the Cold War, and she is the author and editor of several books including Themes in Contemporary American Fiction: The Vietnam War
 
JEEHYUN LIM is an assistant professor of English at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.  She is the author of the forthcoming book Bilingual Brokers: Race, Capital, and the Cultural Politics of Bilingualism
 

Table of Contents

Chronology
Note on the Text
Introduction: Looking Back at the Vietnam War
Brenda M. Boyle and Jeehyun Lim
Chapter 1: Vietnamese Refugees and Internet Memorials: When Does War End and Who Gets to Decide?
Yên Lê Espiritu
Chapter 2: Broken, but Not Forsaken: Disabled South Vietnamese Veterans in Vietnam and the Vietnamese Diaspora
Quan Tue Tran
Chapter 3: What Is Vietnamese American Literature?
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Chapter 4: Viêt Nam and the Diaspora: Absence, Presence, and the Archive
Lan Duong
Chapter 5: Liberal Humanitarianism and Post-Cold War Cultural Politics: The Case of Le Ly Hayslip
Jeehyun Lim
Chapter 6: Ann Hui’s Boat People: Documenting Vietnamese Refugees in Hong Kong
Vinh Nguyen
Chapter 7: “The Deep Black Hole”: Vietnam in the Memories of Australian Veterans and Refugees
Robert Mason and Leonie Jones
Chapter 8: Missing Bodies and Homecoming Spirits
Heonik Kwon
Chapter 9: Agent Orange: Toxic Chemical, Narrative of Suffering, Metaphor for War
Diane Niblack Fox
Chapter 10: Re-Seeing Cambodia and Recollecting The ’Nam: A Vertiginous Critique of the Military Sublime
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Chapter 11: Naturalizing War: The Stories We Tell about the Vietnam War
Brenda M. Boyle
Appendix A: Archives
Appendix B: Publications since 2000
Notes on Contributors
Index
 
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