Remains of War - Bodies, Politics, Search for American Soldiers Unaccounted for in

Informationen zum Autor Thomas M. Hawley is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington. Klappentext "Thomas M. Hawley combines theoretical dexterity and voluminous research in a first-rate book on America's tortured Vietnam legacy. By cataloguing the manifold practices that keep the bodies of the absent dead alive, he enables us to understand the nation's obsession with a political and cultural war it continually invents and reinvents at home and abroad."--Steven Johnston, author of "Encountering Tragedy: Rousseau and the Project of Democratic Order" Zusammenfassung An exploration of how US' efforts to sacralize and repatriate the remains of some 2!000 soldiers killed in action in the Vietnam War might indicate some lingering corporeal and ontological uncertainties in the post-Vietnam era. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix 1. Body Trouble 1 2. From Unrecoverable to Unaccounted For 39 3. The Body of the Accounted-For Soldier 81 4. "Our Stateside MIAs": The Body of the Vietnam Veteran 115 5. Practices of Memorialization: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Tomb of the Vietnam War Unknown Soldier, and the POW/MIA Flag 158 6. The Ethics of Accounting 211 Epilogue. Same as It Ever Was 242 Notes 253 Bibliography 261 Index 277

Product details

• Authors: Thomas M Hawley, Thomas M. Hawley
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.07.2005
• EAN: 9780822335382
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3538-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Politics, History, and Culture; Politics, History, and Culture
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration