Philip West, Steven I Levine, Jackie Hiltz

United States and Asia at War

A Cultural Approach: A Cultural Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings a fresh perspective to three wars the United States fought in Asia between 1941 and 1975 - the Pacific War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War - by focusing on the human dimension of war as experienced by those, on all sides, who fought, lived through, and later remembered them. The complex relationship between history and memory is brought to bear on analyses of cultural artifacts and productions including novels, films, short stories, and poems that derive from or evoke war. Even though the cultural approach concerns itself with the local and the particular rather than with the abstract and universal, it is inherently comparative. Moreover, it also relocates each war in the historical and cultural experiences of Asian countries themselves rather than seeing the war as merely a conflict between the United States and Asian nations. This volume is meant to encourage readers, especially in a teaching environment, to develop an understanding of the experience of war in Asia that is variegated, fragmented, and complex, like the wars themselves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780765602367
• ISBN-10: 0765602369
• Artikelnr.: 22040280

Autorenporträt

Philip West, Steven I. Levine, Jackie Hiltz

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Philip West, Steven I. Levine, Jackie Hiltz
Part I Memorializing
Chapter 1 Remembering Beginnings and Endings, Edward T. Linenthal
Chapter 2 The Bombed, John W. Dower
Part II Analyzing Literature and Films
Chapter 3 Japanese Films about the Pacific War, Tadao Sato, Kana Moll
Chapter 4 Our Forgotten War, David R. McCann
Chapter 5 Fragmentation in American and Vietnamese War Fiction, Leslie Kennedy Adams
Chapter 6 American and Vietnamese Poetry of Witness, James Soular
Chapter 7 Moral Judgment in War and Crimes against Humanity, Van Jay Symons
Part III Remembering
Chapter 8 My Pacific War Revisited, Merrel Clubb
Chapter 9 A Double Exposure of the War, Ahn Junghyo
Chapter 10 Through American Eyes, Colonel Harry SummersJr
Chapter 11 The Korean War at the Dinner Table, Pingchao Zhu
Chapter 12 Myth of the Heroic Soldier and Images of the Enemy, James Z. Gao
Part IV Comparative and Historical Perspectives
Chapter 13 The Age of the World Target, Rey Chow
Chapter 14 Controversies Surrounding the AsiäPacific War, Kentaro Awaya, Barak Kushner
Chapter 15 Tutoring Democracy, John Ernst
Chapter 16 American Wars Within World History, G. L. Penrose
Chapter 17 The Indian Wars and the Vietnam War, Trask David