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]
Temas:
1900-1999
American literature > 20th century.
War in literature.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle.
Guerre dans la littérature.
Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975.
American literature.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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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