Thirty years after new essays on Vietnam war literature, film, and art

Summary: Thirty Years After: New Essays on Vietnam War Literature, Film and Art brings together essays on literature, film and media, representational art, and music of the Vietnam War that were generated by a three-day conference in Honolulu during Veterans Wee

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ISBN: 9781443803670
ISBN: 1443803677
ISBN: 9781443801232
ISBN: 1443801232
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xxv, 492 pages) : illustrations
Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
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