Cultural legacies of Vietnam : uses of the past in the present /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Norwood, N.J. :
Ablex Pub. Corp.,
©1990.
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| Series: | Communication and information science
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Vietnam as political metaphor
- On Americans held prisoner in Southeast Asia : the P.O.W. issue as "lesson" of Vietnam / Peter Ehrenhaus
- AIM's Vietnam and the rhetoric of Cold War orthodoxy / Robert L. Ivie
- "Vietnam" and the politics of history / Philip Wander and Melissa Kane
- Part II. Vietnam and the shaping of popular imagination
- The American idea of national identity : patriotism and poetic sensibility before and after Vietnam / Adi Wimmer
- Images of the warrior returned : Vietnam veterans in popular American films / George Dionisopoulos
- The pride is back : Rambo, Magnum P.I., and the return trip to Vietnam / Harry W. Haines
- Reproducing fathers : gender and the Vietnam War in American culture / Susan Jeffords
- Part III. Vietnam and the shaping of American cultures
- Cultural communication among Vietnam veterans : ritual, myth, and social drama / Charles A. Braithwaite
- Vietnam and the second American inner revolution / Elizabeth Walker Mechling and Jay Mechling
- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the myth of superiority / Richard Morris
- Epilogue : Forms of remembering, forms of forgetting / Peter Ehrenhaus and Richard Morris.