Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebrary, viewed April 29, 2013)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-249)
1 Introduction 9; 2 Jan Assmann's Theory of Cultural Memory 15; 3 American Cultural Memory and the War in Viet Nam 35; 4 Representing Cultural Memory 61; 4.1 Normative, Formative and Affective Aspects of Cultural Memory 66; 4.1.1 The Military and the Media in The Short-Timers 67; 4.1.2 The Media and the Military in Born on the Fourth of July 75; 4.1.3 Cultural Influence versus Personal Choice in The Things They Carried, In the Lake of the Woods and July, July 79; 4.2 Key Sites of Cultural Remembering: Soldiers, Veterans and Their Stories 89
4.2.1 Degeneration Through Violence in The Short-Timers 914.2.2 The Role of the Body in Born on the Fourth of July 109; 4.2.3 Storytellers and Stories in The Things They Carried, In the Lake of the Woods and July, July 117; 5 Transforming American Cultural Memory? 163; 5.1 Gustav Hasford's Black Satire 164; 5.2 Ron Kovic's Autobiography 168; 5.3 Tim O'Brien: New Forms and a Multisensory Style of Writing 170; 5.4 Critical Approaches 207; 5.5 Representing Vietnamese People 215; 6 Conclusion 225; 7 Bibliography 237; 8 Index 251
