The Tainted War: Culture and Identity in Vietnam War Narratives

by Lloyd Lewis

Overview

Lewis thoroughly analyzes the processes through which social reality is constructed and subjectively appropriated by individuals. Step-by-step he shows precisely how a war in Southeast Asia became a young man's reality, how Americans found themseles compelled to scrap the cultural knowledge they had been taught, how an individual went from civilian to combat soldier and back again and was flung into a cultural twilight zone. To reconstruct their world view, Lewis dips into the minds, hearts, and souls of the young men who witnessed the Vietnam War firsthand. As they tell their own stories he focuses on the socio-psychological consequences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313237232
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/20/1985
Series:	Contributions in Military Studies , #44
Pages:	193
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.62(d)
Lexile:	1350L (what's this?)