The ‘My Lai Massacre’ Narrative in American History and Memory: A Story of American Conservatism
This thesis uses the referent “My Lai Massacre” to refer to the mythic memory of what happened in Son My on 16 March, 1968. It argues that it is a fitting name for the way it captures the ethnocentrism of the memory in the name by perpetuating an American misnomer rooted in ignorance. It also sing...
Main Author: | Stewart, Eric |
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Other Authors: | Murray, Heather |
Language: | en |
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Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
2015
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32099 http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-2797 |
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