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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
