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Title

America's wars in Asia : a cultural approach to history and memory / edited by Philip West, Steven I. Levine, and Jackie Hiltz.

Publication

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• West, Philip, 1938-
• Levine, Steven I.
• Hiltz, Jackie.

Description

viii, 286 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This book brings a fresh perspective to three wars the United States fought in Asia between 1941 and 1975 - the Pacific War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War - by focusing on the human dimension of war as experienced by those, on all sides, who fought, lived through, and later remembered them. The complex relationship between history and memory is brought to bear on analyses of cultural artifacts and productions including novels, films, short stories, and poems that derive from or evoke war. Even though the cultural approach concerns itself with the local and the particular rather than with the abstract and universal, it is inherently comparative. Moreover, it also relocates each war in the historical and cultural experiences of Asian countries themselves rather than seeing the war as merely a conflict between the United States and Asian nations. This volume is meant to encourage readers, especially in a teaching environment, to develop an understanding of the experience of war in Asia that is variegated, fragmented, and complex, like the wars themselves.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• War and society > United States > History > 20th century
• War and society > Asia > History > 20th century
• Memory > Social aspects > United States
• Memory > Social aspects > Asia
• War and society > History > United States > 20th century
• War and society > History > Asia > 20th century
• History
• Military history
• Memory > Social aspects
• Military relations
• War and society
• Mémoire > Aspect social > Asie
• Mémoire > Aspect social > États-Unis
• Guerre et société
• Mémoire collective > Etats-Unis
• Mémoire collective > Asie orientale
• Asia > History > 20th century
• United States > History, Military > 20th century
• Asia > Military relations > United States
• United States > Military relations > Asia
• Asia
• United States
• Asie > Histoire > 20e siècle
• États-Unis > Histoire militaire > 20e siècle
• Asie > Relations militaires > États-Unis
• États-Unis > Relations militaires > Asie
• Etats-Unis > Histoire militaire > 20e siècle
• Asie orientale > Histoire militaire > 20e siècle
• États-Unis > Relations militaires > Asie orientale > 20e siècle
• Asie orientale > Relations militaires > Etats-Unis > 20e siècle

Genre/Form

• History.
• Military history.

Note

• "An East gate book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-272) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Sounding the human dimensions of war / Philip West, Steven I. Levine, and Jackie Hiltz -- Remembering beginnings and endings : the fiftieth anniversary at Pearl Harbor and the Enola Gay controversy at the National Air and Space Museum / Edward T. Linenthal -- The bombed : Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese memory / John W. Dower -- Japanese films about the Pacific war / Tadao Sato -- Our forgotten war : the Korean War in Korean and American popular culture / David R. McCann -- Fragmentation in American and Vietnamese war fiction / Leslie Kennedy Adams -- American and Vietnamese poetry of witness : bridge over troubled waters / James Soular -- Moral judgment in war and crimes against humanity / Van Jay Symons -- My Pacific war revisited / Merrel Clubb -- A double exposure of the war / Ahn Junghyo -- Through American eyes : combat experiences and memories of Korea and Vietnam / Colonel Harry Summers, Jr. -- The Korean War at the dinner table / Pingchao Zhu -- Myth of the heroic soldier and images of the enemy / James Z. Gao -- The age of the world target / Rey Chow -- Controversies surrounding the Asia-Pacific war : the Tokyo War Crimes Trial / Kentaro Awaya -- Tutoring democracy : Michigan State University and the politics of reform in South Vietnam / John Ernst -- American wars within world history / G.L. Penrose -- The Indian wars and the Vietnam War / David Trask.

ISBN

• 0765602369
• 9780765602367
• 0765602377
• 9780765602374

LCCN

97027652

OCLC

• ocm37322484
• 37322484
• SCSB-14486679

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library