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The scar that binds : American culture and the Vietnam War /

At the height of the Vietnam War, American society was so severely fragmented that it seemed that Americans may never again share common concerns. The media and other commentators represented the impact of the war through a variety of rhetorical devices, most notably the emotionally charged metaphor...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Beattie, Keith
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, 1998.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.