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Beattie, Keith. "Healing, Voices, Home: Strategies of Unity in Representations of the Impact of the War in Vietnam upon U.S. Culture," American Studies Program, University of New South Wales, December 1993.
The study critiques a central paradox associated with the representation of the effects of the war in Vietnam upon U.S. culture. Traditionally the impact has been defined in terms of the destruction of an assumed consensus. However, assertions of disruption have been eroded and contradicted by texts which unproblematically evoke the notion of cultural holism. “Vietnam,” once the sign of political, social, and cultural division has been appropriated as the site of cultural unity. It is this paradox, and the processes whereby division and difference were transformed into “unity” during the period 1968-1989, which is analyzed. An interdisciplinary approach drawing on film, novel, memoir, and history texts forms the basis of the analysis.
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