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The American War in Viet Nam - Cultural Memories at the Turn of the Century (Hardcover)
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The American War in Viet Nam - Cultural Memories at the Turn of the Century (Hardcover)
Series: Legacies of War
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After more than four decades, the Viet Nam War continues to haunt
our national memory, culture, politics, and military actions. In
this probing interdisciplinary study, Susan Lyn Eastman examines a
range of cultural productions-from memorials and poetry to
cinematic and fictional narratives-that have tried to grapple with
the psychic afterlife of traumatic violence resulting from the
ill-fated conflict in Southeast Asia. Underpinning the book is the
notion of "prosthetic memory," which involves memories acquired by
those with no direct experience of the war, such as readers and
filmgoers. Prosthetic memories, Eastman argues, refuse to relegate
the war to the forgotten past and challenge the authenticity of
experience, thus ensuring its continued relevance to debates over
America's self-conception, specifically her coinage of the "New
Vietnam Syndrome," and the country's role in world affairs when it
comes to contemporary military interventions. With the notable
exception of the Veterans' Memorial in Washington, Eastman's focus
is on works produced from the Persian Gulf War (1990-91) through
the post-9/11 "War on Terror." She looks not only at American
representations of the war-from movies like Randall Wallace's We
Were Soldiers to poems by W. D. Ehrhart, Yusef Komunyakaa, and
others-but also at novels by Vietnamese authors Bao Ninh and Huong
Thu Duong. The experiences of women figure prominently in the book:
Eastman devotes a chapter to the Vietnam Women's Memorial and
another to Sandie Frazier's novel I Married Vietnam and Oliver
Stone's film Heaven and Earth, based on memoirs by Le Ly Hayslip.
And by examining Jessica Hagedorn's Dream Jungle, a novel inspired
by the filming of Apocalypse Now, she considers how the war's
repercussions were felt in other countries, in this case the
Philippines. Her investigation of Vietnamese American authors Lan
Cao, Andrew Lam, and GB Tran adds a transnational dimension to the
study. With its up-to-date perspective on recent works that have
heretofore received scant critical notice, this book offers new
ways of thinking about one of the most polemic chapters in U.S.
history. SUSAN LYN EASTMAN teaches in the Department of English at
the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
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