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Return to Vietnam
Mia Martin Hobbs
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2021-10-14
主題
History / Asia / General
History / Australia & New Zealand
History / Military / General
History / Modern / 20th Century / General
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN
1108832660
9781108832663
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Y_w7EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Between 1981 and 2016, thousands of American and Australian Vietnam War veterans returned to Việt Nam. This comparative, transnational oral history offers the first historical study of these return journeys. It shows how veterans returned in search of resolution, or peace, manifesting in shifting nostalgic visions of 'Vietnam.' Different national war narratives shaped their returns: Australians followed the 'Anzac' pilgrimage tradition, whereas for Americans the return was an anti-war act. Veterans met former enemies, visited battlefields, mourned friends, found new relationships, and addressed enduring legacies of war. Many found their memories of war eased by witnessing Việt Nam at peace. Yet this peacetime reality also challenged veterans' wartime connection to Vietnamese spaces. The place they were nostalgic for was Vietnam, a space in war memory, not Việt Nam, the country. Veterans drew from wartime narratives to negotiate this displacement, performing nostalgic practices to reclaim their sense of belonging.