The Tainted War - Culture and Identity in Vietnam War Narratives

Lewis thoroughly analyzes the processes through which social reality is constructed and subjectively appropriated by individuals. Step-by-step he shows precisely how a war in Southeast Asia became a young man's reality, how Americans found themseles compelled to scrap the cultural knowledge they had been taught, how an individual went from civilian to combat soldier and back again and was flung into a cultural twilight zone. To reconstruct their world view, Lewis dips into the minds, hearts, and souls of the young men who witnessed the Vietnam War firsthand. As they tell their own stories he focuses on the socio-psychological consequences.

Product details

• Authors: Lloyd B. Lewis, Lewis Lloyd
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.09.1985
• EAN: 9780313237232
• ISBN: 978-0-313-23723-2
• No. of pages: 193
• Weight: 369 g
• Series: Contributions in Military Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Vietnam, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Warfare & defence, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Sociology & anthropology, Warfare and defence, History of the Americas, Modern warfare, Sociology and anthropology, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Vietnam War, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General