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Thirty years after

new essays on Vietnam war, literature and film

Thirty years after
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Thirty years after

new essays on Vietnam war, literature and film

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Thirty years after: new essays on Vietnam war, literature and film, and art
2009, Cambridge Scholars Pub
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Thirty years after: new essays on Vietnam war, literature and film
2009, Cambridge Scholars Pub
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2009, Cambridge Scholars Pub
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Table of Contents

Part I. The American war -- Chap. 1. Keynote address : Thirty years after / Tim O'Brien --
Chap. 2.
Thirty years after : the archaeologies /
Philip D. Beidler --
Chap. 3.
Quiet colonialism : Graham Greene's The quiet American /
Rebecca Kumar --
Chap. 4.
The Vietnam War film, victimized veterans, and the disappearing woman /
Gina Weaver -- Chap. 5. The labyrinth of myth and gender in Tim O'Brien's Going after Cacciato /
Susan Farrell --
Chap. 6.
Speaking of trauma : untold and retold tales in The things they carried / Mark A. Heberle --
Chap. 7.
Addressing an unjust past : narrating history in In the Lake of the Woods and the Supreme Court /
Warren Rawson --
Chap. 8.
America, Viet Nam and the poetics of guilt /
Matthew Hill -- Chap. 9.
Yusef Komunyakaa, the US military, the interracial DMZ / Nancy Esposito --
Chap. 10.
Refusal to be can(n)on fodder : African American representation of the Vietnam War and canon formation /
Shirley Hanshaw --
Chap. 11.
In their own voices : the Chicano experience in Vietnam War literature / Catherine Calloway -- Part II. The Vietnamese war --
Chap. 1.
Reconciliation through literature : mirrors and windows /
Wayne Karlin --
Chap. 2. Vietnamese diaspora and California /
Andrew Lam --
Chap. 3.
The Vietnamese land reform program as literary theme /
John C. Schafer --
Chap. 4.
Beyond the American canon : Paradise of the blind, the politics of family, and the economics of affect /
Steven P. Liparulo --
Chap. 5.
Tran Van Dinh's No passenger on the river : a lost foundation text /
Michele Janette --
Chap. 6.
"Unbreakable faith" : Vietnamese poetry about the U.S.-Vietnam War /
Andrew Wilson --
Chap. 7.
The literature of trauma : reading the sorrow of love in Bao Ninh's The sorrow of war /
Ryan Skinnell --
Chap. 8.
Memorializing the anti-American resistance : the "Vietnam War" in Vietnamese film /
Pierre Asselin --
Chap. 9.
An unforgotten song : representations of the American War in Vietnamese song after 1975 /
Jason Gibbs --
Chap. 10.
Most beautiful words : Linh Dinh's poetics of disgust /
Susan Schultz --
Part III. Other cultural representations -- Chap. 1.
Apocalypse now and Charm school : film and literature in the making of CNN's Tailwind tale of nerve gas and defectors /
Jerry Lembcke -- Chap. 2.
Virtual Nam : intertextuality and authenticity in Vietnam War video games /
Bruce Esplin --
Chap. 3.
Vietnam veterans memorials as image events : exorcising the specter of Vietnam /
Neil P. Baird --
Chap. 4.
Aesthetic limbo : memory making at the Vietnam Women's Memorial /
Susan Eastman --
Chap. 5.
A season in hell : art song and the American war in Vietnam / Timothy P. Kinsella -- Chap. 6. "Down in Vietnam our comrades" : Vietnam in Italian folk and popular song / Alessandro Portelli --
Chap. 7.
Why Italians don't read Tim O'Brien : the case of Vietnam War literature in Italian translation / Stefano Rosso --
Part IV. The American wars -- Chap. 1.
Tarzan, Vietnam, and the ambiguity of American empire /
Alex Vernon --
Chap. 2.
Feral soldiers : Casualties of war and In the Valley of Elah / Lorrie Goldensohn --
Chap. 3.
Vietnam and imaginary geography in Anthony Swofford's Jarhead /
Michael Zeitlin --
Chap. 4. "I'm not trying to compete with you" : Gulf War fiction and discursive space / Elisabeth H. Piedmont-Martin --
Chap. 5.
The lesson unlearned : moral trauma in Andrew Jolly's A time of soldiers /
Janis Haswell --
Chap. 6.
Loyalties real and unreal in Robert Stone's Outerbridge reach /-- Christopher S. Schreiner.

Edition Notes

"The essays in this volume derive from a three-day conference at the University of Hawai' i at Mānoa and the East-West Center during Veterans Week 2005 (November 8-10), open to the public, that commemorated the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the American war in Viet Nam."--Preface p. [xiii].

Includes bibliographies and index.

Published in
Newcastle upon Tyne
Genre
Congresses, Art and the war

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS228.V5 T48 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxv, 492 p. :
Number of pages
492

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23702632M
ISBN 10
1443801232
ISBN 13
9781443801232
LCCN
2009483176

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