Looking Back on the Vietnam War

The editors of this collection have assembled eleven essays that take a fresh look at the legacy of the Vietnam War. Since the 1990s, one can observe a renewed scholarly interest in the Vietnam War. This interest, as both editors claim, has been caused partly by the availability of new archival materials and partly by critical questions about the continuing influence of the war on later U.S. foreign politics and U.S. military operations during the 1990s and the twenty-first century. Hailing from a variety of academic fields such as film studies, anthropology, literary criticism, cultural studies, and critical refugee studies, the authors revisit earlier ideas and refresh established discourses by looking through their twenty-first-century lenses, thus illustrating how the legacy of the war continues to affect a variety of communities. The collection also makes a fine contribution by looking not only at the United States and its different communities still affected by the afterlife of the war but also at communities in Australia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, and Vietnam. This intertwined transnational observation is a truly strong feature of the collection

Afterlife · Archaeology · Criticism · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Variety (cybernetics · Vietnam War · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies