Vietnam war stories

Description:

The Gulf War and its aftermath have testified once again to the significance placed on the meanings and images of Vietnam by US media and culture. Almost two decades after the end of hostilities, the Vietnam War remains a dominant moral, political and military touchstone in American cultural consciousness. Vietnam War Stories provides a comprehensive critical framework for understanding the Vietnam experience, Vietnam narratives and modern war literature. The narratives examined - personal accounts as well as novels - portray a soldier's and a country's journey from pre-war innocence, through battlefield experience and consideration, to a difficult post-war adjustment. Tobey Herzog places these narratives within the context of important cultural and literary themes, including inherent ironies of war, the "John Wayne syndrome" of pre-war innocence, and the "heavy Heart-of-Darkness trip" of the conflict itself.

subjects: American War stories,  American literature,  History,  History and criticism,  Innocence (Psychology) in literature,  Innocence in literature,  Literary Criticism,  Literature and the conflict,  Nonfiction,  Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975,  War stories, American,  Guerre du Viet-Nam (1961-1975),  Recits de guerre americains,  Literatur,  Letterkunde,  Guerre du Viet-nam, 1961-1975,  Nai˜vete dans la litterature,  Litterature et guerre,  Literature and the war,  Recits personnels americains,  Vietnam War, 1961-1975,  Umschulungswerksta˜tten fu˜r Siedler und Auswanderer,  Vietnamkrieg,  Vietnam-oorlog,  War and literature,  Vietnam War (1961-1975) fast (OCoLC)fst01431664,  Histoire et critique,  Litterature americaine,  Erza˜hlung,  Innocence dans la litterature americaine,  Criticism and interpretation,  Vietnam war, 1961-1975, literature and the war,  American literature, history and criticism, 20th century,  Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975,  Littérature et guerre,  Littérature américaine,  Naïveté dans la littérature,  Récits de guerre américains,  Récits personnels américains,  American,  General,  Erzählung,  Innocence dans la littérature américaine

Times: 20th century