The Vietnam War has had many long-reaching, traumatic effects, not just on the veterans of the war, but on their children as well. In this book, Weber examines the concept of the war as a social monad, a confusing array of personal stories and public histories that disrupt traditional ways of knowing the social world for the second generation.

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Christina D. Weber is Associate Professor of Sociology at North Dakota State University, USA.

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Book Title: Social Memory and War Narratives
Book Subtitle: Transmitted Trauma among Children of Vietnam War Veterans
Authors: Christina D. Weber
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137496652
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50151-6Published: 23 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50553-1Published: 08 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49665-2Published: 23 April 2015
Series ISSN: 2634-6419
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6427
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 220
Topics: History of Military, Sociology, general, Oral History, Media Studies, Memory Studies

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Exploring Trauma and Memory through the Social Monad

Conceptualizing the Vietnam Veteran Narrative as a Narrative of Trauma

Exploring the Social Monad through the Crisis of Articulation

The Vietnam Veteran Father: Reconfiguring Hegemonic Discourses of Masculine Subjectivity

Narrative Disruptions of the Dominant Fiction

Thoughts and Conclusions

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