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Informationen zum Autor Boyle, Brenda M Klappentext Looking Back on the Vietnam War embarks on an interdisciplinary and international investigation to discover what we remember about the war, how we remember it, and why. Each essay examines a different facet of the Vietnam War, offering fresh insights on the war’s long-term psychological, social, artistic, political, and environmental impacts. By putting these diverse pieces together, the contributors assemble an expansive yet nuanced composite portrait of the war and its global legacies. Zusammenfassung Brings together scholars from a broad variety of disciplines! who offer fresh insights on the Vietnam 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis ChronologyNote on the TextIntroduction: Looking Back at the Vietnam WarBrenda M. Boyle and Jeehyun LimChapter 1: Vietnamese Refugees and Internet Memorials: When Does War End and Who Gets to Decide?Y?n Lê EspirituChapter 2: Broken, but Not Forsaken: Disabled South Vietnamese Veterans in Vietnam and the Vietnamese DiasporaQuan Tue TranChapter 3: What Is Vietnamese American Literature?Viet Thanh NguyenChapter 4: Vi?t Nam and the Diaspora: Absence, Presence, and the ArchiveLan DuongChapter 5: Liberal Humanitarianism and Post–Cold War Cultural Politics: The Case of Le Ly HayslipJeehyun LimChapter 6: Ann Hui’s Boat People: Documenting Vietnamese Refugees in Hong KongVinh NguyenChapter 7: “The Deep Black Hole”: Vietnam in the Memories of Australian Veterans and RefugeesRobert Mason and Leonie JonesChapter 8: Missing Bodies and Homecoming SpiritsHeonik KwonChapter 9: Agent Orange: Toxic Chemical, Narrative of Suffering, Metaphor for WarDiane Niblack FoxChapter 10: Re-Seeing Cambodia and Recollecting The ’Nam: A Vertiginous Critique of the Military SublimeCathy J. Schlund-VialsChapter 11: Naturalizing War: The Stories We Tell about the Vietnam WarBrenda M. BoyleAppendix A: ArchivesAppendix B: Publications since 2000Notes on ContributorsIndex ...
