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Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War
The Late John A. Wood
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Description for Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War
Paperback. Series: War and Society in North America. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; BJ; HBJK; HBWS2; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 306.
In the decades since the Vietnam War, veteran memoirs have influenced Americans' understanding of the conflict. Yet few historians or literary scholars have scrutinized how the genre has shaped the nation's collective memory of the war and its aftermath. Instead, veterans' accounts are mined for colorful quotes and then dropped from public discourse; are accepted as factual sources with little attention to how memory, no matter how authentic, can diverge from events; or are not contextualized in terms of the race, gender, or class of the narrators. Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory ... Read more
In the decades since the Vietnam War, veteran memoirs have influenced Americans' understanding of the conflict. Yet few historians or literary scholars have scrutinized how the genre has shaped the nation's collective memory of the war and its aftermath. Instead, veterans' accounts are mined for colorful quotes and then dropped from public discourse; are accepted as factual sources with little attention to how memory, no matter how authentic, can diverge from events; or are not contextualized in terms of the race, gender, or class of the narrators. Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
War and Society in North America
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821422236
SKU
V9780821422236
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About The Late John A. Wood
John Wood earned a PhD in history from Temple University and lives in Westport, Massachusetts.
Reviews for Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War
Wood's fascinating study of Vietnam veterans' memoirs explores common themes and representations-accurate and inaccurate-of soldiers' wartime experiences and how these narratives helped shape Americans' collective memory of the war. This groundbreaking volume provides a unique perspective on America's most divisive military conflict since the Civil War.
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