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Hagopian, Patrick.

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The social memory of the Vietnam War. (Volumes I and II).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The social memory of the Vietnam War. (Volumes I and II)./
Author:	Hagopian, Patrick.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1994,
Description:	633 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 56-01, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International56-01A.
Subject:	American history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9419979

The social memory of the Vietnam War. (Volumes I and II).
Hagopian, Patrick.

The social memory of the Vietnam War. (Volumes I and II). - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1994 - 633 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 56-01, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 1994.

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The Vietnam War was a vexing memory for Americans in the 1980s both because it ended in defeat for the United States and because it was widely regarded as an immoral war, symbolized by the My Lai atrocity. President Reagan tried to convince Americans, but failed to convince most, that the war was a "noble cause." Looking back, many Americans report that they lost their faith in themselves, their leaders, and their nation because of the war. Public opinion about the lessons of the war has been persistently divided. Americans fear "another Vietnam," but disagree about what mistakes were made in Vietnam and, consequently, about how to avoid their repetition elsewhere. These conflicts underlie and express a lack of consensus about American foreign policy and American cultural identity. The dissertation mainly examines two kinds of artifact: Vietnam veterans memorials and oral narratives by Vietnam veterans. In both, America's residual doubts and conflicts are negotiated. Both present veterans' experience favorably to the public. Once vilified, Vietnam veterans have become focal points around whom the divided factions of society can coalesce. A crucial argument concerns the medical metaphors like the "Vietnam Syndrome" and the "trauma of the war" used to describe both society's ideological divisions and veterans' predicament. The recognition granted by the memorials and by the publication of veterans' narratives is said to further veterans' "healing" process. As society welcomes veterans back and assimilates the historical experience which they embody, it too is said to "heal." This acknowledgement of the historical reality of the war has created zones of silence, however. The dissertation examines critically the design deliberations for Vietnam veterans memorials and the interviewing and editing processes of oral narrative collections in order to identify the ideological assumptions they make and the ideas they exclude. Placing the discussion in the context of other forms of expression, in film, literature, and visual arts, the dissertation identifies significant ways in which the memorials and oral narratives evade or displace the morality and politics of the war. The dissertation ends by questioning what a societal process of healing from the war might actually entail.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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American history.
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memorials

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