Social Memory and War Narratives - Transmitted Trauma Among Children of Vietnam War Veterans

Informationen zum Autor Christina D. Weber is Associate Professor of Sociology at North Dakota State University, USA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Produktdetails

• Autoren: C Weber, C. Weber, Christina D. Weber
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 23.04.2015
• EAN: 9781137501516
• ISBN: 978-1-137-50151-6
• Seiten: 229
• Serien: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict; Palgrave Studies in Cultural H; Palgrave Studies in Cultural H; Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; B, Oral History, Media Studies, Sociology, Communication, military history, Historiography, Media and Communication, Sociology, general, Memory Studies, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, History of Military, children;Generation;memory