The United States and Vietnam from War to Peace: Papers from an Interdisciplinary Conference on Reconciliation - Tapa dura

"it is hard to believe that any text on Vietnam could include more social, cultural, literary and political motifs than this one. It is also hard to believe that one could be written any better"--American Studies

Some twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, America does not seem yet to have recovered, spiritually or emotionally. Despite the recent reopenings of diplomatic relations, the idea of reconciliation between the United States and Vietnam is anathema to a large number of Americans. In December 1993, historians, Asia scholars, writers, artists, filmmakers, journalists, psychiatrists, government officials, antiwar activists, veterans activists, reconciliation advocates, and Vietnamese gathered at the University of Notre Dame to discuss the process of understanding the American culture that created the war, the American culture created by the war, and issues that affect full reconciliation for both the United States and Indochina, including Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Papers examining the literature of reconciliation were also presented.