Looking Back on the Vietnam War : Twenty-first-Century Perspectives

Rutgers University Press

Looking Back on the Vietnam WarTwenty-first-Century Perspectives\nAuthor(s): Brenda M. Boyle, Jeehyun Lim, Brenda M. Boyle, Jeehyun Lim, Yen Le Espiritu, Quan Tue Tran, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Lan Duong, Vinh Nguyen, Robert Mason\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9780813579948, 978-0813579948\nSynopsis\nMore than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the wars legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war refugees have spawned a wide Vietnamese diaspora, and the United States military remains embroiled in unwinnable wars with eerie echoes of [url] Back on the Vietnam War brings together scholars from a broad variety of disciplines, who offer fresh insights on the wars psychological, economic, artistic, political, and environmental impacts. Each essay examines a different facet of the war, from its representation in Ma.