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The Remains Of War: Bodies, Politics, And The Search For American Soldiers Unaccounted For In Southeast Asia (politics, History, And Culture) by Thomas M. Hawley, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The ongoing effort of the United States to account for its missing Vietnam War soldiers is unique. The United States requires the repatriation and positive identification of soldiers’ bodies to remove their names from the list of the missing. This quest for certainty in the form of the material, identified body marks a dramatic change from previous wars, in which circumstantial evidence often sufficed to account for missing casualties. In The Remains of War , Thomas M. Hawley considers why the body of the missing soldier came to assume such significance in the wake of the Vietnam War. Illuminating the relationship between the effort to account for missing troops and the political and cultural forces of the post-Vietnam era, Hawley argues that the body became the repository of the ambiguities and anxieties surrounding the U.S. involvement and defeat in Southeast Asia.Hawley combines the theoretical insights of Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, and Emmanuel Levinas with detailed research into the history of the movement to recover the remains of soldiers missing in Vietnam. He examines the practices that constitute the Defense Department’s accounting protocol: the archival research, a
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- Author
- Thomas M. Hawley, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822386575
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, History, Political Science
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