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There it is : narratives of the Vietnam War /

This book provides a critical survey of the literature on the Vietnam War and is intended both for academic and general readers. Earlier works of this kind constantly recycled criticism of a half-dozen of the same works. In this study, the aim was to discuss a much greater number of works, including...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burns, Tom
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stuttgart : Ibidem Verlag, [2021]
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520 |a This book provides a critical survey of the literature on the Vietnam War and is intended both for academic and general readers. Earlier works of this kind constantly recycled criticism of a half-dozen of the same works. In this study, the aim was to discuss a much greater number of works, including a few that have never been discussed. To appeal to non-academic readers, Lit-Crit jargon was kept to a minimum, and parallels with earlier works of war literature, especially those of the two world wars, were established. 
505 0 |a Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- i. The Vietnam War -- ii. The Soldiers -- iii. The Narrative Literature of the War -- iv. The Present Study -- Notes -- Part I Partisans -- Chapter One Early Adventurers -- i. Lieutenant-Colonel Landsdale -- ii. Graham Greene, The Quiet American (1955) -- iii. William J. Lederer &amp -- Eugene Burdick, The Ugly American (1958) -- iv. M. J. Bosse, The Journey of Tao Kim Nam (1959) -- v. Jean Lartéguy, Yellow Fever (1962 -- English Translation, 1965) -- vi. Epilogue: Ward Just, A Dangerous Friend (1999) -- Notes -- Chapter Two Fictional History &amp -- Historical Fiction: The Fall of Diem -- i. President Ngo Dinh Diem -- ii. Stuart Hempstone, A Tract of Time (1966) -- iii. Robert Vaughn, The Valkyrie Mandate (1974) -- iv. Morris West, The Ambassador (1965) -- v. Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter Three Advisors &amp -- Friendlies: Pro-War Novels -- i. Optimism in the early phases -- ii. Robin Moore, The Green Berets (1965) -- iii. Scott C. S. Stone, The Coasts of War (1966) -- iv. Richard Newhafer, No More Bugles in the Sky (1966) -- v. Gene D. Moore's The Killing at Ngo Tho (1967) -- vi. James Crumley, One to Count Cadence (1969) -- vii. Charles Larson, The Chinese Game (1969) -- viii. Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter Four Advisors &amp -- Friendlies II: Ambivalent Warriors -- i. Doubt sets in -- ii. David Halberstam, One Very Hot Day (1967) -- iii. Daniel Ford, Incident at Muc Wa (1968) -- iv. John Rowe, Count Your Dead (1968) -- v. Alan Clark, The Lion Heart: a Tale of the War in Vietnam (1969) -- vi. Josiah Bunting, The Lionheads (1972) -- vii. Bo Hathaway's A World of Hurt (1981) -- viii. Donald McQuinn, Targets (1980) -- ix. Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter Five Soldiers &amp -- Civilians -- i. Protestors &amp -- Reporters -- ii. Norman Mailer, Armies of the Night (1968). 
505 8 |a Iii. Pamela Sanders, Miranda (1978) -- iv. Thomas Fleming's The Officers' Wives (1981) -- v. Joan Didion, Democracy (1984) -- vi. Takeshi Kaiko's Into a Black Sun: Vietnam 1964-65 (1968, English trans. 1983) -- vii. Bernard Kalb and Martin Kalb, The Last Ambassador (1981) -- viii. Conclusions -- Notes -- Part II Modes and Genres -- Chapter Six Combat Memoirs -- i. Autobiographical War Writings -- ii. Ron Kovic, Born on the Fourth of July (1976) -- iii. Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War (1977) -- iv. Tim O'Brien, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home (1975) -- v. Frederick Downs, The Killing Zone (1978) -- vi. W.D. Ehrhart, Vietnam-Perkasie-A Combat Marine's Memoir (1983) -- vii. Robert Mason, Chickenhawk (1983) -- viii. Tobias Wolff, In Pharoah's Army-Memoirs of the Last War (1994) -- ix. Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter Seven Allegory -- i. Allegorical Vietnam -- ii. Jonathan Rubin, The Barking Deer (1974) -- iii. Asa Baber, The Land of a Million Elephants (1971) -- iv. Victor Kolpakoff, The Prisoners of Quai Dong (1967) -- v. Norman Mailer, Why Are in Vietnam? (1967) -- vi. Robert Stone, Dog Soldiers (1974) -- vii. Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (1975) -- viii. Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter Eight Combat Realism -- i. Conventions of Realism -- ii. Robert Roth, Sand in the Wind (1973) -- iii. Stephen Philip Smith, American Boys (1975) -- iv. Tom Suddick, A Few Good Men (1974) -- v. William Pelfrey, The Big V (1972) -- vi. William Turner Huggett, Body Count (1973) -- vii. Larry Heinemann, Close Quarters (1974) -- viii. Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter Nine Combat VS. Ideology -- i. Two Authors -- ii. James Webb, Fields of Fire (1978) -- iii. John Del Vecchio, The 13th Valley (1983) -- iv. Comparisons &amp -- Conclusions -- v. Epilogue: Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War (2010) -- Notes -- Chapter Ten Deviations. 
505 8 |a I. Alternatives to Realism -- ii. William Wilson, The LBJ Brigade (1966) -- iii. James Park Sloan, War Games (1971) -- iv. John Clark Pratt, The Laotian Fragments (1974) &amp -- Vietnam Voices (1984) -- v. Ward Just, Stringer (1984) -- vi. Lloyd Little, Parthian Shot (1975) -- vii. Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers (1979) -- viii. Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter Eleven Inventions: Fantasy &amp -- Metafiction -- i. Literature of the Optative Mode -- ii. William Eastlake, The Bamboo Bed (1969) -- iii. Tim O'Brien, Going After Cacciato (1975) -- iv. Nicholas Rinaldi, Bridge Fall Down (1985) -- v. Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried -- vi. Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter Twelve Correspondents -- i. Reporters in the Nam -- ii. Library of America collection: Reporting Vietnam (1998) -- iii. John Sack, M (1966) -- iv. Harrison E. Salisbury, Behind the Lines-Hanoi (1967) -- v. Jonathan Schell, The Village of Ben Suc (1967) &amp -- The Military Half (1968) -- vi. Gloria Emerson, Winners and Losers (1976) -- vii. Mary McCarthy, Vietnam (1967) and Hanoi (1968) -- viii. James Jones' Viet Journal (1973) -- ix. Michael Herr, Dispatches (1968) -- x. Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter Thirteen Ordinary People: Oral Memoirs -- i. War Stories &amp -- Oral History -- ii. Al Santoli, Everything We Had: an Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty-Three Soldiers Who Fought It (1981) -- iii. Mark Baker, Nam-The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There (1987) -- iv. Keith Walker, A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of Twenty-Six American Women Who Served in Vietnam (1985) -- v. Wallace Terry, Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans (1984) -- vi. Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter Fourteen Vets: The Return of the Repressed -- i. A.R. Flowers, De Mojo Blues (1985) -- ii. Jack Fuller, Fragments (1984). 
505 8 |a Iii. Bobbie Ann Mason, In Country (1985) -- iv. Larry Heineman, Paco's Story (1986) -- v. Stephen Wright, Meditations in Green (1983) -- vi. Michael H. Cooper, Dues: a Novel of War and After (1994) -- vii. Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods (1994) -- viii. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary Works -- Secondary Works. 
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