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The scar that binds : American culture and the Vietnam War / Keith Beattie.

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Main Author: Beattie, Keith
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©1998.
Subjects:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Influence.
United States > Civilization > 1945-
Table of Contents:
  • 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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