The Vietnam War
Editat de Brenda M. Boyleen Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 dec 2014
Including an historical timeline of the conflict and annotated guides to further reading, this is an essential guide for students and readers of contemporary American fiction
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781472512048
ISBN-10: 1472512049
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 1 halftone illus
Dimensiuni: 145 x 222 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: BLOOMSBURY 3PL
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1472512049
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 1 halftone illus
Dimensiuni: 145 x 222 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: BLOOMSBURY 3PL
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Cuprins
Chronology
Introduction: The War Stories We Tell
Brenda M. Boyle
Chapter One: Michael Herr's Traumatic New Journalism: Dispatches
Mark Heberle
Chapter Two: Duong Thu Huong's Paradise of the Blind and Novel without a Name, and Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of War: Corrective, Politically Incorrect, and Challenging
Michele Janette
Chapter Three: "Ten years burning down the road": Trauma, Mourning and Postmemory in Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country
Joanna Price
Chapter Four: Vietnamese American literature and le thi diem thuy's The Gangster We Are All Looking For
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud
Chapter Five: The Homefront and the Frontlines in the War Novels of Tim O'Brien
Susan Farrell
Chapter Six: The Ghost that Won't be Exorcised: Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story
Stacey Peebles
Chapter Seven: American Totem Society in the Twenty-First Century: Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke, Karl Marlantes' Matterhorn, and Tatjana Solis' The Lotus Eaters
Brenda M. Boyle
Further Reading
Works Cited
Index
Introduction: The War Stories We Tell
Brenda M. Boyle
Chapter One: Michael Herr's Traumatic New Journalism: Dispatches
Mark Heberle
Chapter Two: Duong Thu Huong's Paradise of the Blind and Novel without a Name, and Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of War: Corrective, Politically Incorrect, and Challenging
Michele Janette
Chapter Three: "Ten years burning down the road": Trauma, Mourning and Postmemory in Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country
Joanna Price
Chapter Four: Vietnamese American literature and le thi diem thuy's The Gangster We Are All Looking For
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud
Chapter Five: The Homefront and the Frontlines in the War Novels of Tim O'Brien
Susan Farrell
Chapter Six: The Ghost that Won't be Exorcised: Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story
Stacey Peebles
Chapter Seven: American Totem Society in the Twenty-First Century: Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke, Karl Marlantes' Matterhorn, and Tatjana Solis' The Lotus Eaters
Brenda M. Boyle
Further Reading
Works Cited
Index
Recenzii
The reach and scope of this wonderfully insightful volume fundamentally remaps the study of Vietnam War literature. It is an indispensable guide not only to new critical perspectives from trauma, memory, gender and race studies on canonical American writings but also opens up the central place of works from Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora for our understanding of the war and its aftermath.
In this first essay collection on Vietnam War literature since 2009, Boyle offers seven substantial essays by both established scholars in the field and relative newcomers that blend close textual analysis with theoretical approaches, well-known canonical texts with newer war narratives, and American-centered works with texts by Vietnamese-American and Vietnamese writers. The volume sheds new light on the literature of the Vietnam War and its ongoing critical debate, especially in its focus on the lens of trauma, gender studies, masculinity theories, the North Vietnamese experience, and the link between Vietnam War texts and the ongoing war in Iraq. The collection is a welcome addition to the canon of Vietnam War literature.
The literature of the Vietnam War has undergone many changes in the last forty years, and so has the critical thinking about that literature and that war. This anthology represents some of the newest thinking about these topics, and usefully focuses on key works of American, Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American literature. The book is a terrific introduction to a complicated body of writing.
Kudos to Brenda Boyle for giving overdue attention to the depiction of war trauma in fictional literature. Wonderfully inclusive with studies of the Michael Herr and Tim O'Brien classics, introductions to Vietnamese writers new to many American readers, and critical treatments of recent work by Karl Marlantes and Tatjana Solis, this volume belongs on all our readings lists.
Forty years after the fall of Saigon, interest in the Vietnam War continues to be a topic of interest for scholars and students alike. Boyle adds to the canon of critical work on this experience . Notably inclusive, the essays offer perspectives from voices often omitted, including those of North Vietnamese writers . Boyle takes care, in both the introduction and the concluding essay, to connect the Vietnam experience with the experience of veterans in the first and second wars in Iraq . With this book, Boyle speaks directly to the cultural 'hard work of imagination, interpretation, and remembrance' that follows any war, but especially a war as divisive and murky as Vietnam. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.
Boyle's introduction, "The War Stories We Tell" (pp. 1-25), is essential reading for both its perspective and insight, while the essays are individually strong and collectively reinforcing to the extent of producing the most up-to-date account of literary responses to the war. Familiar and lesser known novels are treated with equal probity, opening new avenues to understanding.
Essays in The Vietnam War: Topics in Contemporary North American Literature revisit well-known texts like Michael Herr's Dispatches, Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and In the Lake of the Woods, Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story, and Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country, but also address under-studied works by Vietnamese Americans as well as works that reflect upon the experience of Vietnamese people during the war . The strength of the collection is in authors' attention to novels about the North Vietnamese and Vietnamese refugees' experience, . evaluation of how the Vietnam War is refigured in the wake of 9/11 in aesthetic works, and close readings of canonical texts with nuanced engagement with new directions in trauma theory, such as Marianne Hirsch's work on postmemory.
In this first essay collection on Vietnam War literature since 2009, Boyle offers seven substantial essays by both established scholars in the field and relative newcomers that blend close textual analysis with theoretical approaches, well-known canonical texts with newer war narratives, and American-centered works with texts by Vietnamese-American and Vietnamese writers. The volume sheds new light on the literature of the Vietnam War and its ongoing critical debate, especially in its focus on the lens of trauma, gender studies, masculinity theories, the North Vietnamese experience, and the link between Vietnam War texts and the ongoing war in Iraq. The collection is a welcome addition to the canon of Vietnam War literature.
The literature of the Vietnam War has undergone many changes in the last forty years, and so has the critical thinking about that literature and that war. This anthology represents some of the newest thinking about these topics, and usefully focuses on key works of American, Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American literature. The book is a terrific introduction to a complicated body of writing.
Kudos to Brenda Boyle for giving overdue attention to the depiction of war trauma in fictional literature. Wonderfully inclusive with studies of the Michael Herr and Tim O'Brien classics, introductions to Vietnamese writers new to many American readers, and critical treatments of recent work by Karl Marlantes and Tatjana Solis, this volume belongs on all our readings lists.
Forty years after the fall of Saigon, interest in the Vietnam War continues to be a topic of interest for scholars and students alike. Boyle adds to the canon of critical work on this experience . Notably inclusive, the essays offer perspectives from voices often omitted, including those of North Vietnamese writers . Boyle takes care, in both the introduction and the concluding essay, to connect the Vietnam experience with the experience of veterans in the first and second wars in Iraq . With this book, Boyle speaks directly to the cultural 'hard work of imagination, interpretation, and remembrance' that follows any war, but especially a war as divisive and murky as Vietnam. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.
Boyle's introduction, "The War Stories We Tell" (pp. 1-25), is essential reading for both its perspective and insight, while the essays are individually strong and collectively reinforcing to the extent of producing the most up-to-date account of literary responses to the war. Familiar and lesser known novels are treated with equal probity, opening new avenues to understanding.
Essays in The Vietnam War: Topics in Contemporary North American Literature revisit well-known texts like Michael Herr's Dispatches, Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and In the Lake of the Woods, Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story, and Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country, but also address under-studied works by Vietnamese Americans as well as works that reflect upon the experience of Vietnamese people during the war . The strength of the collection is in authors' attention to novels about the North Vietnamese and Vietnamese refugees' experience, . evaluation of how the Vietnam War is refigured in the wake of 9/11 in aesthetic works, and close readings of canonical texts with nuanced engagement with new directions in trauma theory, such as Marianne Hirsch's work on postmemory.