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The scar that binds : American culture and the Vietnam War

Title: The scar that binds : American culture and the Vietnam War / Keith Beattie.
Author: Beattie, Keith.
Publication: New York : New York University Press, ©1998.

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Description

ix, 230 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Beattie examines the central metaphors of the Vietnam War and their manifestations in American culture and life. Blending history and cultural criticism in a lucid style, this provocative book discusses an ideology of unity that has emerged through widespread rhetorical and cultural references to the war. A critique of this ideology reveals three dominant themes structured in a range of texts: the "wound," "the voice" of the Vietnam veteran, and "home." The analysis of each theme draws on a range of sources, including film, memoir, poetry, written and oral history, journalism, and political speeches.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-220) and index.

Contents

Habeas-corpus and common sense -- The wound that dare not speak its name -- Stab wounds -- "Us" and "them" -- Healing -- Vietnamnesia -- The personal imperative -- Rituals of the community -- The national allegory -- The unhealed -- Silencing the messenger -- "If I only had the words" -- A unique war -- You had to be there -- Teaching the truth -- The voice of unity -- Talking back -- The home front -- Repatriation -- The therapeutic family -- Nostalgia -- There's no place like it -- Articulating difference and unity.

ISBN

0814713262
9780814713266
0814798691
9780814798690

LCCN

97045456

OCLC

ocm38130526
38130526
SCSB-14473544

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Princeton University Library