Other Side of Grief
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American diaspora experiences
American social transformation
antiwar activism history
artistic responses to wartime scars
Author_Maureen Ryan
baby boomer wartime generation
captivity survival narratives
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civilian responses to conflict
Cold War era military attitudes
collective healing narratives
community readjustment challenges
conflict-driven social change
cross-generational war effects
cultural reckoning with violence
displacement after conflict
emotional burden carried home
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fiction addressing wartime return
fragmented family dynamics
grief shaped by distant conflict
home-front storytelling traditions
immigrant resettlement experiences
interwoven personal histories
legacies of resistance movements
literary portrayals of wartime aftermath
memoirs of long-term war impact
military sacrifice reflections
military service consequences
moral injury in veterans
narrative ethics in war stories
narratives of disrupted domestic life
national identity shaped by conflict
postwar emotional trauma
POW cultural symbolism
protest movement legacy
psychological impact on families
public perceptions of veterans
refugee resilience stories
reimagining postwar life
Southeast Asian refugee journeys
storytelling as coping mechanism
tension between memory and silence
trauma recovery journeys
unresolved wartime consequences
veteran reintegration struggles
Vietnam War cultural memory
war literature beyond battlefield
women's perspectives on military conflict
Product details
- ISBN 9781558496866
- Weight: 494g
- Dimensions: 159 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Dec 2008
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is a wide-ranging critical assessment of the cultural impact of America's longest war.The lingering aftereffects of the Vietnam War resonate to this day throughout American society: in foreign policy, in attitudes about the military and war generally, and in the contemporary lives of members of the so-called baby boom generation who came of age during the 1960s and early 1970s. While the best-known personal accounts of the war tend to center on the experience of combat, Maureen Ryan's ""The Other Side of Grief"" examines the often overlooked narratives - novels, short stories, memoirs, and films - that document the war's impact on the home front.In analyzing the accounts of Vietnam veterans, women as well as men, Ryan focuses on the process of readjustment, on how the war continued to insinuate itself into their lives, their families, and their communities long after they returned home. She looks at the writings of women whose husbands, lovers, brothers, and sons served in Vietnam and whose own lives were transformed as a result. She also appraises the experiences of the POWs who came to be embraced as the war's only heroes; the ordeal of Vietnamese refugees who fled their 'American War' to new lives in the United States; and the influential movement created by those who committed themselves to protesting the war.The end result of Ryan's investigations is a cogent synthesis of the vast narrative literature generated by the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Together those stories powerfully demonstrate how deeply the legacies of the war penetrated American culture and continue to reverberate still.
MAUREEN RYAN is professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi.
