{"product_id":"looking-back-on-the-vietnam-war-twenty-first-century-perspectives-paperback-softback-9780813579931","title":"Looking Back on the Vietnam War; Twenty-first-Century Perspectives (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813579931","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLooking Back on the Vietnam War\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTwenty-first-Century Perspectives\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBrenda M. Boyle (Edited by), Jeehyun Lim (Edited by), Brenda M. Boyle (Contributions by), Jeehyun Lim (Contributions by), Yen Le Espiritu (Contributions by), Quan Tue Tran (Contributions by), Viet Thanh Nguyen (Contributions by), Lan Duong (Contributions by), Vinh Nguyen (Contributions by), Robert Mason (Contributions by), Leonie Jones (Contributions by), Heonik Kwon (Contributions by), Diane Niblack Fox (Contributions by), Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813579931\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 June 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages, 6 photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm, 0.324 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"A collection of studies on the way the war is being remembered and commemorated … The diasporic theme is a welcome counterbalance to the US-centered canon that obscures the presence of the Vietnamese people in their own struggle for independence and all but elides them in studies of the postwar years ... Recommended.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003e\"It is a crucial and timely moment to revisit the meanings of the Vietnam War. This book is a hugely valuable reassessment of the war's legacies and cultural impact.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Marita Sturken (author of Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering) \u003cdiv\u003e\"We're just now barely getting a grip on the myriad aftermaths of the Vietnam War. I enthusiastically urge anyone interested in wars or 'post-wars' to read this fine book--slowly.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Cynthia Enloe (author of Globalization and Militarism, updated edition) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This superb volume brings together a remarkable group of scholars whose attention to disaporic sensibilities, war memory, and contrapuntal narratives fundamentally remakes our understanding of the Vietnam War's cultural politics.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Mark Philip Bradley (The University of Chicago) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLooking Back on the Vietnam War\u003c\/i\u003e is haunting in its unflinching critique and intervention to denaturalize warfare and disentangle its afterlife. It is most sublime in rupturing once conventional narratives.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Linda Trinh Vo (University of California, Irvine)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMore than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the war’s legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war refugees have spawned a wide Vietnamese diaspora, and the United States military remains embroiled in unwinnable wars with eerie echoes of Vietnam. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eLooking Back on the Vietnam War\u003c\/i\u003e brings together scholars from a broad variety of disciplines, who offer fresh insights on the 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. By putting these pieces together, the contributors assemble an expansive yet nuanced composite portrait of the war and its global legacies.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThough they come from diverse scholarly backgrounds, ranging from anthropology to film studies, the contributors are united in their commitment to original research. Whether exploring rare archives or engaging in extensive interviews, they voice perspectives that have been excluded from standard historical accounts. \u003ci\u003eLooking Back on the Vietnam War\u003c\/i\u003e thus embarks on an interdisciplinary and international investigation to discover what we remember about the war, how we remember it, and why.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChronology\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNote on the Text\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction: Looking Back at the Vietnam War\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBrenda M. Boyle and Jeehyun Lim\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 1: Vietnamese Refugees and Internet Memorials: When Does War End and Who Gets to Decide?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eY?n LÊ\u003cbr\u003e Espiritu\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 2: Broken, but Not Forsaken: Disabled South Vietnamese Veterans in Vietnam and the Vietnamese Diaspora\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eQuan Tue Tran\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 3: What Is Vietnamese American Literature?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eViet Thanh Nguyen\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 4: Vi?t Nam and the Diaspora: Absence, Presence, and the Archive\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLan Duong\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 5: Liberal Humanitarianism and Post–\u003cbr\u003eCold War Cultural Politics: The Case of Le Ly Hayslip\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eJeehyun Lim\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 6: Ann Hui’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eBoat People\u003c\/i\u003e: Documenting Vietnamese Refugees in Hong Kong\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eVinh Nguyen\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 7: “\u003cbr\u003eThe Deep Black Hole”\u003cbr\u003e: Vietnam in the Memories of Australian Veterans and Refugees\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eRobert Mason and Leonie Jones\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 8: Missing Bodies and Homecoming Spirits\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eHeonik Kwon\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 9: Agent Orange: Toxic Chemical, Narrative of Suffering, Metaphor for War\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eDiane Niblack Fox\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 10: Re-Seeing Cambodia and Recollecting \u003ci\u003eThe ’\u003cbr\u003eNam\u003c\/i\u003e: A Vertiginous Critique of the Military Sublime\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eCathy J. Schlund-Vials\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 11: Naturalizing War: The Stories We Tell about the Vietnam War\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBrenda M. Boyle\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAppendix A: Archives\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAppendix B: Publications since 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIndex\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559358066968,"sku":"9780813579931","price":25.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/looking-back-on-the-vietnam-war-twenty-first-century-perspectives-paperback-softback-9780813579931","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}