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" The scar that binds : "
Keith Beattie
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BL
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636409
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| Main Entry
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Beattie, Keith,1954-
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The scar that binds : : American culture and the Vietnam War /\ Keith Beattie
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ix, 230 pages ;; 24 cm
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0814713262
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: 9780814713266
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: 0814798691
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: 9780814798690
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-220) and index
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| Contents
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Habeas-corpus and common sense -- The wound that dare not speak its name -- Stab wounds -- "Us" and "them" -- Healing -- Vietnamnesia -- The personal imperative -- Rituals of the community -- The national allegory -- The unhealed -- Silencing the messenger -- "If I only had the words" -- A unique war -- You had to be there -- Teaching the truth -- The voice of unity -- Talking back -- The home front -- Repatriation -- The therapeutic family -- Nostalgia -- There's no place like it -- Articulating difference and unity
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| Abstract
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Beattie examines the central metaphors of the Vietnam War and their manifestations in American culture and life. Blending history and cultural criticism in a lucid style, this provocative book discusses an ideology of unity that has emerged through widespread rhetorical and cultural references to the war. A critique of this ideology reveals three dominant themes structured in a range of texts: the "wound," "the voice" of the Vietnam veteran, and "home." The analysis of each theme draws on a range of sources, including film, memoir, poetry, written and oral history, journalism, and political speeches
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975-- United States
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975-- Influence
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VIETNAMESE CONFLICT, 1961-1975
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United States, Civilization, 1945-
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959.704/3373
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DS558.B4 1998
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