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Fighting and Writing the Vietnam War » Read Now
by Don Ringnalda. 266 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

A new paradigm for perceiving the Vietnam War & the literature it produced.
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Search and Clear: Critical Responses to Selected Literature and Films of the Vietnam War » Read Now
by William J. Searle. 215 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Warring Fictions: American Literary Culture and the Vietnam War Narrative » Read Now
by Jim Neilson. 260 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

A well-documented investigation of the Vietnam fiction canon & an exposure of the critical minds that inadequately defined it.
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The Lessons of Vietnam: Using Literature to Introduce Students to the Vietnam War, in Social Education » Read Now
by Toni Fuss Kirkwood-Tucker, Janet E. Benton. 8 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...that assist in teaching what the Vietnamese refer to...American Vietnam War" A genre of adolescent literature focuses on...adolescent literature to supplement...subject of...
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Teaching Hearts and Minds: College Students Reflect on the Vietnam War in Literature » Read Now
by Barry M. Kroll. 200 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library
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Vietnam, We've All Been There: Interviews with American Writers » Read Now
by Eric James Schroeder. 219 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Vietnam, We've All Been There a unique collection of interviews with noted American writers who made the Vietnam war a subject of their work. The writers represented here were chosen by Dr. Schroeder because their books, plays, poems, and reportage are among the best of the particular genre in which...
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Vietnam, We've All Been There a unique collection of interviews with noted American writers who made the Vietnam war a subject of their work. The writers represented here were chosen by Dr. Schroeder because their books, plays, poems, and reportage are among the best of the particular genre in which each one works - Norman Mailer, David Rabe, and Michael Herr among them. Provocative not only for the opinions and memories of the interviewees, this book is also interesting for its focus on the variety of literary forms and styles that emerged from the Vietnam experience. The author makes the point that the more successful literature to come out of the war was from writers who stretched the limits of particular forms, giving birth to narratives that broke all the rules. For example, where journalism usually demands facts, Michael Herr, the author of Dispatches, insisted on much more. He described psychological states, assessed personal losses, and personified the war in ways that were radically different from accepted reporting. As Dr. Schroeder reminds us, Vietnam deeply affected everyone who lived through it - thus there were many cultural effects that still beg for examination and thought. He spent nine years gathering these interviews and during that time the war was a constant presence in his life. For many Americans even a lifetime may not make it possible to come to terms with the war. And while it is important not to forget where we've been, it is also important to move forward. In this book, the writers we hear from, like the works they created, help us to remember the past with a reflective wisdom that is essential to informing our future.
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Vietnam War Stories: Innocence Lost » Read Now
by Tobey C. Herzog. 244 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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The Viet Nam War/The American War: Images and Representations in Euro-American and Vietnamese Exile Narratives » Read Now
by Renny Christopher. 344 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Connecting Times: The Sixties in Afro-American Fiction (Part I "Novels of the Vietnam War") » Read Now
by Norman Harris. 204 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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MIA: African American Autobiography of the Vietnam War, in African American Review » Read Now
by Jeff Loeb. 19 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...autobiography of the Vietnam War. by...Loeb In a recent article in War, Literature, and the...edition of Vietnam Generation...Americans in the literature and popular...
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Vietnam and the Southern Imagination (Chap. 8 "The Southern Poet's Vietnam") » Read Now
by Owen W. Gilman Jr. 206 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

A revealing look at how the new generation of southern writers links southern cultural heritage & the American experience in Vietnam.
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Friendly Fire: American Images of the Vietnam War » Read Now
by Katherine Kinney. 221 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Hundreds of memoirs, novels, plays, and movies have been devoted to the American war in Vietnam. In spite of the great variety of mediums, political perspectives and the degrees of seriousness with which the war has been treated, Katherine Kinney argues that the vast majority of these works share a...
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Hundreds of memoirs, novels, plays, and movies have been devoted to the American war in Vietnam. In spite of the great variety of mediums, political perspectives and the degrees of seriousness with which the war has been treated, Katherine Kinney argues that the vast majority of these works share a single story: that of Americans killing Americans in Vietnam. Friendly Fire, in this instance, refers not merely to a tragic error of war, it also refers to America's war with itself during the Vietnam years. Starting from this point, this book considers the concept of "friendly fire" from multiple vantage points, and portrays the Vietnam age as a crucible where America's cohesive image of itself is shattered--pitting soldiers against superiors, doves against hawks, feminism against patriarchy, racial fear against racial tolerance. Through the use of extensive evidence from the film and popular fiction of Vietnam (i.e. Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July, Didion's Democracy, O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, Rabe's Sticks and Bones and Streamers), Kinney draws a powerful picture of a nation politically, culturally, and socially divided, and a war that has been memorialized as a contested site of art, media, politics, and ideology.
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The Vietnam Experience: A Concise Encyclopedia of American Literature, Songs, and Films » Read Now
by Kevin Hillstrom, Laurie Collier Hillstrom. 323 pgs.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

The Vietnam War was one of the most painful and divisive events in American history. The conflict, which ultimately took the lives of 58,000 Americans and more than three million Vietnamese, became a subject of bitter and impassioned debate. The most dramatic--and frequently the most...
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The Vietnam War was one of the most painful and divisive events in American history. The conflict, which ultimately took the lives of 58,000 Americans and more than three million Vietnamese, became a subject of bitter and impassioned debate. The most dramatic--and frequently the most enduring--efforts to define and articulate America's ill-fated involvement in Vietnam emerged from popular culture. American journalists, novelists, playwrights, poets, songwriters, and filmmakers--many of them eyewitnesses--have created powerful, heartfelt works documenting their thoughts and beliefs about the war. By examining those works, this book provides readers with a fascinating resource that explores America's ongoing struggle to assess the war and its legacies.
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