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The Remains of War
Bodies, Politics, and the Search for American Soldiers Unaccounted For in Southeast Asia
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Thomas M. Hawley
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Edited by:
Julia Adams
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English
Published/Copyright:
2005
About this book
An exploration of how US' efforts to sacralize and repatriate the remains of some 2,000 soldiers killed in action in the Vietnam War might indicate some lingering corporeal and ontological uncertainties in the post-Vietnam era.
Author / Editor information
Thomas M. Hawley is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington.
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“As someone who has read numerous books on the Vietnam War, I found much new and helpful information in The Remains of War. What is most helpful, however, is not simply the information Thomas M. Hawley presents but his theoretical framework for thinking through the mechanisms by which the very idea of an ‘unaccounted-for body’ comes into being. Hawley makes a first-rate argument that will reshape the ways in which we talk about bodies in the Vietnam War.”—Susan Jeffords, author of The Remasculinization of America: Gender and the Vietnam War
“Thomas M. Hawley combines theoretical dexterity and voluminous research in a first-rate book on America’s tortured Vietnam legacy. By cataloguing the manifold practices that keep the bodies of the absent dead alive, he enables us to understand the nation’s obsession with a political and cultural war it continually invents and reinvents at home and abroad.”—Steven Johnston, author of Encountering Tragedy: Rousseau and the Project of Democratic Order
“The Remains of War deserves an important place on the Vietnam War shelf of any library. It is probably the definitive empirical work on the accounting of America’s Vietnam POWs and MIAs. It also offers some provocative insights on the role of this issue in our culture and on the continued irresolution about what has been the great agony of the Baby Boom generation: the Vietnam War.”
-- Timothy J. Lomperis Perspectives on Politics
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eBook published on:
July 13, 2005
eBook ISBN:
9780822386575
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296
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