Social Memory and War Narratives: Transmitted Trauma among Children of Vietnam War Veterans

by C. Weber

Overview

The Vietnam War has had many long-reaching, traumatic effects, not just on the veterans of the war, but on their children as well. In this book, Weber examines the concept of the war as a social monad, a confusing array of personal stories and public histories that disrupt traditional ways of knowing the social world for the second generation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349505531
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	11/08/2015
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Christina D. Weber is Associate Professor of Sociology at North Dakota State University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Traffic in Memories 1. Exploring Trauma and Memory through the Social Monad 2. Conceptualizing the Vietnam Veteran Narrative as a Narrative of Trauma 3. Exploring the Social Monad through the Crisis of Articulation 4. The Vietnam Veteran Father: Reconfiguring Hegemonic Discourses of Masculine Subjectivity 5. Narrative Disruptions of the Dominant Fiction Conclusion