While the best known personal accounts of the Vietnam War tend to center on the experience of combat, Maureen Ryan's The Other Side of Grief examines the often overlooked narratives - novels, short stories, memoirs, and films - that document the war's impact on the home front. I…
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Drawing on a range of sources, from White House documents and congressional hearings to comic books and feature films, this text shows how the United States continued to wage war on Vietnam 'by other means' for another 25 years.
This fascinating investigation into the production of American cultural memory focuses on two of the most traumatic and contested events in recent U.S. history: the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic. Each, Marita Sturken argues, disrupts our conventional understanding of nationh…
Analyzing the ways in which US culture has been formed and transformed in the '80s and '90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, this work argues that each has disrupted conventional notions of community, nation, consensus and "American culture". It examines…
This fascinating investigation into the production of American cultural memory focuses on two of the most traumatic and contested events in recent U.S. history: the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic. Each, Marita Sturken argues, disrupts our conventional understanding of nationh…
This fascinating investigation into the production of American cultural memory focuses on two of the most traumatic and contested events in recent U.S. history: the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic. Each, Marita Sturken argues, disrupts our conventional understanding of nationh…
