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.
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
AsiaPacific 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;
Philip West, Steven I. Levine, Jackie Hiltz
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