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...William V. Spanos Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:3 / sheet 33 of 252 6943 boundar A Rumor of War: 9/11 and the Forgetting of the Vietnam War William V. Spanos...

... the Vietnam War by way of the disclosures not simply of the Heidegger of Being and Time but also of such writers as Franz Kafka (The Castle), Jean-Paul Sartre (Nausea), Nathalie Sarraute 5983 b2 27:1 / sheet 159 of 237 (Portrait...

... a “profane” world in that they resist a supervisory call to conform to and, by the very act, provoke anxiety in the settled thinking of identitarian nationalisms. For Spanos, the Vietnam War functions as a useful paradigm in rethinking the metaphysical practices of the United States in relation...

... call at the end of the century for the exten- sion of the American frontier beyond the western boundary of the United States extended the American errand into the “wilderness” of the Philip- pines and, later, into the “wilderness” of Vietnam—not incidentally called “Indian country” by American...

... relationship to Levertov and their differeing relationship to the Vietnam War era, see Davidson 2011 : 159–75. 7. Levertov ( 1971 : 41) addresses Duncan in part 2 of “Staying Alive”: “Robert reminds me revolution / implies the circular: an exchange of position, the high / brought low, the low...

... in the West. We read, in the initial assessments, much about the recrudescence of an age-old enmity between China and Russia, or China and Vietnam. This analysis became unsustainable. Chinese admiration of Stalin has always seemed somewhat curious—he had advised cooperation with the Guomindang...

...-­Depression New England. Tracing the psychic transformations—­New Hampshire “other” to US soldier and POW on the western front, Dresden eyewitness to midwestern graduate student on the GI bill, literature profes- sor at an upstate New York public university during the Vietnam and Iraq wars—­directly...

..., the grievances or political goals that motivated its use lent themselves to rational investigation. COIN was applied in Vietnam and Latin America by American and US-­backed militaries who mirrored— “countered”—insurgent tactics. Stampnitzky suggests that initial reflection on terrorism during the 1960s...

... states: the tension between internationalism and nationalism. Ellison was a Popular Front internationalist in the 1930s, before his career as a writer had really begun, but by the 1960s and 1970s, he was a national patriot, who supported the American war in Vietnam and who accepted honors from...

... States, despite the interceding Korean, Vietnam, and Gulf Wars (and despite the fact that colo- nized Hawai‘i could only be imagined as ‘‘home’’ through violent acts of denial). These wars imply a seriality, a succession of wars, with the war against terrorism, in its mutability and extension...

...-class, and all-American officer class (it is time to de- molish the myth constructed by Hollywood—and, despite the disclosures of the Vietnam War, perpetuated to this day in films such as Saving Pri- vate Ryan—that World War II was won by an inordinately patriotic and self- sacrificing American army...

..., their activities spreading across Japan. Foremost among these movements was the Citizens’ Fed- eration for Peace in Vietnam. Later social movements turned their attention to the problems of industrial pollution and the consequences of rapid eco- nomic growth. In contrast, formal political activity, including...

... of solidarity that allied people, uniting the first and the third worlds both in action and in theory, come from? And where are they today? Unlike the riveting photographs of the Vietnam I thank Peter Schumann for having so kindly agreed to the interview, and Alberto Sandoval...

... in a massive rural and dense-brush surveillance program, or McNamara's ill-fated “electronic battlefield” in Vietnam. 11 In each of these instances, saboteurs were objecting not to the abstract militarism of systems analysis or information technology, but to the immediate involvement of university resources...

... with thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, and others. The fuel for this transformation, Spanos tells us,1 was the incommensurate US involvement in the Vietnam War, which he saw as rea- son gone mad. Insofar as his own work was a response...

.... The confrontation was followed by media excoriations of the students’ violent tactics, ignoring their opposition to support for the Vietnam War in favor of caricaturing them as menacing, irrational, revolutionary adventurers and violent gangs. The Japan Communist Party for its part labeled the students...

.... Four Decades On: Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War. Durham, NC: Duke Univer- sity Press, 2013. Latimer, Heather. Reproductive Acts: Sexual Politics in North American Fiction and Film. Ithaca, NY: McGill-­Queen’s University Press, 2013. Lefebvre, Alexandre...

... in Vietnam. Johnson’s campaign of impla- cable violence fomented the end of his catastrophic political career, four decades of the greatest criminal venality in American history. Barely three years out of office, Johnson died in January 1973, a prisoner under constant FBI and CIA scrutiny on his ranch...

... policy, framed by the Vietnam War and the so-called­ War on Terror. Along this line, he has also pointed to the contributions and limitations of Heidegger’s thought for a historical understanding of imperial reason, Pax Americana, and the post–­nation-­state limbo brought about by the end...

... called for a “libertarian socialism” of the sort that he imagined was then being built in Cuba, China, and Vietnam, and he demanded that his audience search out American Novel Dossier  /  McCann and Szalay  /  Response  147 In advocating the good kind of spiritual...