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.

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

Inhalt
Introduction: The Traffic in Memories 1. Exploring Trauma and Memory through the Social Monad 2. Conceptualizing the Vietnam Veteran Narrative as a Narrative of Trauma 3. Exploring the Social Monad through the Crisis of Articulation 4. The Vietnam Veteran Father: Reconfiguring Hegemonic Discourses of Masculine Subjectivity 5. Narrative Disruptions of the Dominant Fiction Conclusion