The American War in Viet Nam

Susan Lyn Eastman writes of poetry, prose, and narrative films about, and memorials to, the Vietnam War, focusing on works produced since 1990. In chapter 1 of The American War in Viet Nam she revisits the creation of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Subsequent chapters address poetic responses to that memorial; the Vietnam Women's Memorial, dedicated in 1993; the perspectives of civilian women married to Vietnam War veterans; narratives about personalized sites of remembrance in Vietnam; the film We Were Soldiers (2002), based on Joseph L. Galloway and Harold G. Moore's book We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young (1992) and Galloway and Moore's sequel, We Are Soldiers Still (2008); two narratives that make connections between neocolonialism in the Philippines and in Vietnam; narratives by authors from the Vietnamese American diaspora; and the “new Vietnam syndrome,” provoked by U.S. wars in and occupation of Iraq, and by the nation's mission in Afghanistan

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