Introduction DOI
Mia Martin Hobbs

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Год журнала: 2021, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 24

Опубликована: Сен. 30, 2021

The Introduction explains that veterans returned to Việt Nam in search of resolution, or peace, their personal relationships with the war. This manifested nostalgia for "Vietnam," returnees acting as a diasporic community forged While many found measure peace upon return, they were also challenged by erasure wartime presence. Veterans drew on memories and performed nostalgic practices recapture sense belonging Nam. Outlining three distinct eras returnees, this chapter shows how comparative, transnational perspective reveals stark differences American Australian war memories, narratives, imaginings "Vietnam." presents review existing scholarship topic returning veterans, situating book broader literature its legacies; book's oral history methodology analytic approach; outlines structure book.

Язык: Английский

Appendix 1 Veteran Subjects DOI
Mia Martin Hobbs

Опубликована: Сен. 30, 2021

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Язык: Английский

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Relics and Remnants DOI
Mia Martin Hobbs

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Год журнала: 2021, Номер unknown, С. 101 - 126

Опубликована: Сен. 30, 2021

Chapter 4 examines how veterans responded to the presence and absence of war remnants in Việt Nam. Returning often engaged battlefield pilgrimage as a way reflect on past, encountering or visiting form battle locations military bases. However, for Vietnamese, were not limited battlefields architecture. This chapter takes broad view relics remnants, considering alongside bases ecological, social, individual effects those who lived through it born its aftermath. These more subtle obvious some returnees, but others, they invisible. Exploring veterans' reactions these forms illuminates further war: biases other lingering wartime ideologies Australians Americans returned.

Язык: Английский

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Normalization, 1995–2005 DOI
Mia Martin Hobbs

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Год журнала: 2021, Номер unknown, С. 50 - 72

Опубликована: Сен. 30, 2021

Chapter 2 examines the second era of veterans' return journeys, from 1995–2005. This was characterized by "normalization": establishment diplomatic relations between United States and Việt Nam offered security to tentative veterans who had watched reconciliation process afar. Lifted travel restrictions a growing tourism industry provided returnees with more latitude in their returns, resulting diverse group. Increasingly, both countries returned on "healing journeys," approaching as locus trauma. A discourse trauma emerged narratives, mirroring rising popularity therapy psychoanalysis Western cultures, majority normalization describing returns therapeutic. Many became engaged reconstruction activities form atonement Nam, reshaping early returnees' processes into personal healing projects.

Язык: Английский

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Bibliography DOI
Mia Martin Hobbs

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Год журнала: 2021, Номер unknown, С. 247 - 267

Опубликована: Сен. 30, 2021

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Introduction DOI
Mia Martin Hobbs

Cambridge University Press eBooks, Год журнала: 2021, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 24

Опубликована: Сен. 30, 2021

The Introduction explains that veterans returned to Việt Nam in search of resolution, or peace, their personal relationships with the war. This manifested nostalgia for "Vietnam," returnees acting as a diasporic community forged While many found measure peace upon return, they were also challenged by erasure wartime presence. Veterans drew on memories and performed nostalgic practices recapture sense belonging Nam. Outlining three distinct eras returnees, this chapter shows how comparative, transnational perspective reveals stark differences American Australian war memories, narratives, imaginings "Vietnam." presents review existing scholarship topic returning veterans, situating book broader literature its legacies; book's oral history methodology analytic approach; outlines structure book.

Язык: Английский

Процитировано

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