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The Remains of War: Bodies, Politics, and the Search for American Soldiers Unaccounted For in Southeast Asia Paperback - 2005

by Thomas M. Hawley

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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, archaeological excavation, and forensic identification of recovered remains. He considers the role of the American public and the families of missing soldiers in demanding the release of pows and encouraging the recovery of the missing; the place of the body of the Vietnam veteran within the war's legacy; and the ways that memorials link individual bodies to the body politic. Highlighting the contradictions inherent in the recovery effort, Hawley reflects on the ethical implications of the massive endeavor of the American government and many officials in Vietnam to account for the remains of American soldiers.

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"Thomas M. Hawley combines theoretical dexterity and voluminous research in a first-rate book on America's tortured Vietnam legacy. By cataloguing the manifold practices that keep the bodies of the absent dead alive, he enables us to understand the nation's obsession with a political and cultural war it continually invents and reinvents at home and abroad."--Steven Johnston, author of "Encountering Tragedy: Rousseau and the Project of Democratic Order"

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  • Title The Remains of War: Bodies, Politics, and the Search for American Soldiers Unaccounted For in Southeast Asia
  • Author Thomas M. Hawley
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2005-07-13
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780822335382 / 0822335387
  • Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.18 x 6.12 x 0.76 in (23.32 x 15.54 x 1.93 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Missing in action -, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Casualties - United
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005002539
  • Dewey Decimal Code 959.704

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  • Choice, 02/01/2006, Page 1089

About the author

Thomas M. Hawley is Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington.

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