Echoes of Combat
Trauma, Memory, and the Vietnam War
Will be published approx. on 1. May 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-8166-3549-8 (ISBN)
Description
Private trauma and public memory in pop culture images of Vietnam, in a newly updated edition.
Using psychological trauma as its guiding metaphor, Echoes of Combat is the first book to explore the parallels between the healing of Vietnam veterans and Americans' collective recovery from the war. With such diverse sources as film, books, television, political speeches, monuments, medical texts, veterans' testimonies, and the men's movement, Turner shows how the healing narratives of individuals have allowed us to transform our recollections of American aggression in Vietnam into tales of national sacrifice.
Using psychological trauma as its guiding metaphor, Echoes of Combat is the first book to explore the parallels between the healing of Vietnam veterans and Americans' collective recovery from the war. With such diverse sources as film, books, television, political speeches, monuments, medical texts, veterans' testimonies, and the men's movement, Turner shows how the healing narratives of individuals have allowed us to transform our recollections of American aggression in Vietnam into tales of national sacrifice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-3549-8 (9780816635498)
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Fred Turner has been a freelance reporter and critic since 1986. His features have appeared in The Progressive, The Chicago Tribune, and The Boston Phoenix. He has taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives in Watertown, Massachusetts.