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This book seeks to reformulate the canon of writings on what is called "the Viet Nam War" in America and "the American War" in Viet Nam. Until recently, the accepted canon has consisted almost exclusively of American white male combat narratives, which often reflect and perpetuate Asian stereotypes. Renny Christopher introduces material that displays a bicultural perspective, including works by Vietnamese exile writers and by lesser-known Euro-Americans who attempt to bridge the cultural gap.
Christopher traces the history of American stereotyping of Asians and shows how Euro-American ethnocentricity has limited most American authors' ability to represent fairly the Vietnamese in their stories.
By giving us access to Vietnamese representations of the war, she creates a context for understanding the way the war was experienced from the "other" side, and she offers perceptive, well-documented analyses of how and why Americans have so emphatically excised the Vietnamese from narratives about a war fought in their own country.
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American War stories, American and Vietnamese, American literature, Biography, Comparative Literature, Exiles, History, History and criticism, In literature, Literature and the conflict, Literature, Comparative, Narration (Rhetoric), Soldiers' writings, American, Vietnamese Americans, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Vietnamese and American, Vietnamese literature, War stories, American, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Literature and the war, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, literature and the war, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, War stories, history and criticism, Vietnamese literature, history and criticism, Vietnam, biography, Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975, Littérature et guerre, Littérature américaine, Histoire et critique, Américains d'origine vietnamienne, Biographies, Littérature vietnamienne, Littérature comparée, Américaine et vietnamienne, Vietnamienne et américaine, Écrits de militaires américains, Récits de guerre américains, Exilés, Viêt-nam dans la littérature, Narration, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, Literature, War and literature, English, Languages & Literatures, Guerre du Viet-Nam (1961-1975), Écrits de soldats américains, Récits de guerre américians, Dans la littératurePlaces
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The Vietnam War the American War: Images and Representations in Euro-American and Vietnamese Exile Narratives (American Studies / Asian-American Studies)
December 1995, University of Massachusetts Press
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The Viet Nam War/the American war: images and representations in Euro-American and Vietnamese exile narratives
1995, University of Massachusetts Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-337) and index.
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