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Tim O'Brien and the Art of the True War Story: "Night March" and "Speaking of Courage", in Twentieth Century Literature
by John H. Timmerman. 14 pgs.

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Fighting and Writing the Vietnam War (Chap. 5 "Tim O'Brien's Understood Confusion")
by Don Ringnalda. 266 pgs.

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A new paradigm for perceiving the Vietnam War & the literature it produced.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

One Prospero Goes to Vietnam

Two Guerrilla Texts

Three Stephen Wright's Chlorophyll Overdose

Four Michael Herr's Spectral Journalism

Five Tim O'Brien's Understood Confusion

Six Civilian Perspectives in Peter Straub's Koko

Seven Poems "Whittled from Bone"

Eight the Theatre of Doing It Wrong, Getting It Right

Nine the Paralysis of Uniqueness

T E N Memorials to War

Works Cited

Index
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Vietnam, We've All Been There: Interviews with American Writers ("Maybe So," interview with Tim O'Brien p. 125)
by Eric James Schroeder. 219 pgs.

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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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Acknowledgments

Introduction

"Playing a Diabolical Trick on the Reader"

"We've All Been There"

"It Became an Absolute Crusade"

"Propaganda in the Purest Sense"

"The Hubris of the American Vision"

"Keep the Levels of Consciousness Sharp"

"Maybe So"

"Novels Are More Polite than a Simple 'Fuck You'"

"Eventually I Had to Confront the Subject"

"Poetry Grabbed Me by the Throat"

"A Harrowing Audience Experience"

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About the Author
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The Undying Uncertainty of the Narrator in Tim O'Brien's the Things They Carried, in Critique
by Steven Kaplan. 10 pgs.

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How to Tell a True War Story: Metafiction in the Things They Carried, in Critique
by Catherine Calloway. 9 pgs.

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Writing between the Lines: An Anthology on War and Its Social Consequences ("How to Tell a True War Story" by Tim O'Brien p. 4)
by Kevin Bowen, Bruce Weigl. 314 pgs.

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"This terrific collection is a powerful antidote to the rewritten and re-imaged vision of the Vietnam War in American culture of the 1990s....An exceptionally valuable book with ample potential as a classroom text". -- H. Bruce Franklin

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Foreword

Introduction: Completing the Circle

In Country

How to Tell a True War Story

The Ivory Comb

From Ugly Deadly Music

Fragile as a Sun Ray

Armed Forces Recruitment Day, Albuquerque High School, 1962

First Day, Headquarters Co., 101st Airborne, Phan Rang, Viet Nam

First Encounter

Hearing the Argument of the Little Prisoners

Disasters of War

The Sound of Night

From Fire and Rain

From a Time Far Past

Song of the Hammock (bai Ca Canh Vong)

Song of the Moonlight and the Dan Bo (tieng Dan Bau Va Dem Trang)

Driver of Lorries Without Windscreens

Truong Son East, Truong Son West

Tipping Point

Connections: Vermont Vietnam (i)

Connections: Vermont Vietnam (ii)

Aftermath

Shell Shock

Words for My Daughter

For the Missing in Action

White Circle

In the Labor Market at Giang Vo

Sitting with the Buddhist Monks in Hue, 1967

Waiting

In Phan Thiet

Making the Children Behave

A Walk in the Garden of Heaven

Manuel is Quiet Sometimes

Memorial. Day at the Viet Coffee House

From Novel in Progress:: Over There is the Horizon

Knowing

Wounds of War

Beggars of the Past

From Lost Armies

Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong

The Slope of Life

Do Len

Moonlight

From Chickenhawk: Back in the World

An Old Story

Returning the Missing

Parts

Survivors

The Examples

Outside the Blue Nile

Facing It

Across Borders

Surreptitious Encounter with Joaquin Pasos

Urgent Message to My Mother

From Testimony: Death of a Guatamalan Village

Matters of the Heart

Responsibility

From Mother Tongue

The Extremely Funny Gun Salesman

Miami Beach Farmer

One Night in January

From the Angel of History

The Garden Shukkei-En

Gisela Brüning

Malebolge

We'Re Substance Now and Time

From Scene from the Movie Giant

The Other Alamo

Them

Rain

The Border

What Makes Us Think We Are Only Here

In San Salvador (i)

Going Back

Fever Dream in Ha Noi

A Reed Boat

The Hanoi Market

Nui Ba Den: Black Virgin Mountain

The Arts of Love and Hydrology As Practiced in Hanoi

River Music

The Snail Gatherers of Co Loa Thanh

That Country

The House on Lotus Pond

Mountains and Rivers: Works from Viet Nam

Hope

Despair

My Thoughts

Folk Poetry: Ca Dao

Tavern by a Mountain Stream

The Lieu Quan School of Vietnamese Buddhism

Nonattachment

Parting

White Circles Revisited

The Path

Motion

The Inn of Snake Alcohol

Time

On the Highway

New Students, Old Teacher

Those Days of Happiness

The Alabaster Stork

Quang Tri

New Year Fireworks

Red Earth, Blue Water

A Small Song of Peace

Contributors

Credits and Permissions
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Can Stories Save Us? Tim O'Brien and the Efficacy of the Text, in Critique
by Maria S. Bonn. 14 pgs.

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Time in O'Brien's Going after Cacciato, in Critique
by Dean Mcwilliams. 11 pgs.

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O'Brien's Going after Cacciato, in Explicator
by Vera P. Froelich. 3 pgs.

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A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English ("Tim O'Brien" begins on p. 309)
by Erin Fallon, R. C. Feddersen, James Kurtzleben, Maurice A. Lee, Susan Rochette-Crawley. 432 pgs.

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Though many outstanding novels have been written in the last century, most of these novelists have also been short story writers. This reference is a guide to contemporary English-language short story writers and their works. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 50 writers from around the world, most of whom have been active since 1960. More than half the American writers belong to historically marginalized groups, such as Jewish-Americans, African-Americans, and Asian-Americans, and the volume includes entries for slightly more women than men. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides biographical material, a review of criticism, an extended analysis of specific works, and a selected bibliography.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Glance at the History of the Short Story in English

Chinua Achebe

Ama Ata Aidoo

Jessica Anderson

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

Toni Cade Bambara

John Simmons Barth

Donald Barthelme

Ann Beattie

Morley Callaghan

Angela (Olive) Carter

Raymond Carver

Sandra Cisneros

Robert Coover

Anita Desai

(Karen)Louise Erdrich

Richard Ford

Janet Frame

Ernest J. Gaines

Mavis Gallant

Nadine Gordimer

Patricia Grace

Gish Jen

Charles Richard Johnson

Elizabeth Jolley

Jamaica Kincaid

Maxine Hong Kingston

Doris Lessing

Bernard Malamud

Bobbie Ann Mason

James Alan McPherson

Lorrie Moore

Bharati Mukherjee

Alice Munro

R. K. Narayan

Tim OýBrien

Michael Ondaatje

Cynthia Ozick

Grace Paley

Velma Pollard

Victor Sawdon Pritchett

Jean Rhys

Salman Rushdie

Samuel Dickson Selvon

Olive Senior

Leslie Marmon Silko

Amy Tan

William Trevor

Selected Annotated Bibliography

Index

About the Editors and Contributors
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Warring Fictions: American Literary Culture and the Vietnam War Narrative (Chap. 7 "Undying Uncertainty")
by Jim Neilson. 260 pgs.

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A well-documented investigation of the Vietnam fiction canon & an exposure of the critical minds that inadequately defined it.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Manufacturing Canons

1: Commercial Literary Culture

2: Academy Literary Culture

3: La Condition Humaine

4: Official Distortions

5: Rock-And-Roll-War

6: America as Home

7: Undying Uncertainty

Conclusion: True War Stories

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References

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Vietnam War Stories: Innocence Lost (Chap. 4 "Consideration")
by Tobey C. Herzog. 244 pgs.

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Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

1: Thematic Contexts

2: Innocence

3: Experience

4: Consideration

5: Aftermath

Afterword

Bibliography

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The Vietnam Experience: A Concise Encyclopedia of American Literature, Songs, and Films ("Going after Cacciato" begins on p. 133)
by Kevin Hillstrom, Laurie Collier Hillstrom. 323 pgs.

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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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Advisory Board

Preface

After Our War

Apocalypse Now

The Armies of the Night

‘‘The Ballad of the Green Berets’’

The Best and the Brightest

Bloods: an Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans

Further Reading

‘‘Born in the U.S.A.’’

Born on the Fourth of July

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

Casualties of War

Further Reading

Coming Home

Further Reading

The Deer Hunter

Dispatches

Fields of Fire

Further Reading

Fire in the Lake

‘‘Fortunate Son’’

Friendly Fire

Full Metal Jacket

Further Reading

Go Tell the Spartans

Going after Cacciato

Further Reading

The Green Berets

The Hanoi Hilton

Hearts and Minds

Home before Morning

In Country

Further Reading

In Pharaoh’s Army

Further Reading

In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam

Further Reading

The Killing Fields

‘‘Masters of War’’

Meditations in Green

Further Reading

‘‘Ohio’’

‘‘Okie from Muskogee’’

Paco’s Story

Further Reading

Platoon

The Quiet American

Rambo: First Blood, Part II

Further Reading

The Real War

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A Rumor of War

Further Reading

Song of Napalm

Sticks and Bones

Further Reading

The Things They Carried

The 13th Valley

‘‘We Gotta Get out of This Place’’

Winners and Losers

Index

About the Authors

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