{"product_id":"9781621902973","title":"The American War in Viet Nam: Cultural Memories at the Turn of the Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter more than four decades, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our national memory, culture, politics, and military actions. In this probing interdisciplinary study, Susan Lyn Eastman examines a range of cultural production that have tried to grapple with the psychic afterlife of traumatic violence resulting from the ill-fated conflict in Southeast Asia. Underpinning the book is the notion of \"prosthetic memory,\" which involves memories acquired by those with no direct experience of the war, such as readers and filmgoers. Prosthetic memories, Eastman argues, refuse to relegate the war to the forgotten past and challenge the authenticity of experience, thus ensuring its continued relevance to debated over America's self-conception, specifically her coinage of the \"New Vietnam Syndrome\" and the country's role in world affairs when it comes to contemporary military interventions. With the notable expectation of the Veterans' memorial in Washington, Eastman's focus is on works produced from the Persian Gulf War (1990-91) through the post-9\/11 \"war on Terror.\" The experiences of women figure prominently in the book: Eastman devotes a chapter to the Vietnam Women's Memorial and another to Sandie Frazier's novel I Married Vietnam and Olive Stone's film Heaven and Earth. By examining Jessica Hagedorn's Dream Jungle, she considers how the war's repercussions were felt in other countries. Her investigation of Vietnamese American authors Lan Cao Andrew I am, and GB Tran adds a transnational dimension to the study. With its up-to-date perspective on recent works, this book offers new ways of thinking about one of the most polemic chapters in U.S. history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Tennessee Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031761043696,"sku":"9781621902973","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781621902973_p0.jpg?v=1769904858","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781621902973","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}