| ISBN: | 9781472512048 (hbk.) |
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| ISBN: | 1472512049 (hbk.) |
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| ISBN: | 9781472506269 (pbk.) |
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| ISBN: | 147250626X (pbk.) |
| 编目源: | UKMGB UKMGB OCLCO YDXCP BTCTA BDX NLE OCLCF CHVBK IAD UAB |
| 地理区域代码: | a-vt--- n-us--- |
| 题名: | The Vietnam War : topics in contemporary North American literature / edited by Brenda M. Boyle. |
| 索书号: | I712.074/B792E |
| 载体形态: | xvi, 205 pages : map ; 22 cm. |
| 书目附注: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-201) and index. |
| 格式化内容附注: | Introduction: the war stories we tell -- Michael Herr's traumatic new journalism -- 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 -- 'Ten years burning down the road': trauma, mourning, and postmemory in Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country -- War, gender, and race in le thi diem thuy's The Gangster We Are All Looking For -- The home front and the front lines in the war novels of Tim O'Brien -- The ghost that won't be exorcised: Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story -- American totem society in the twenty-first century: Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke, Karl Marlante's Matterhorn, and Tatjana Solis's The Louis Eaters. |
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| 格式化内容附注: | Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; CHRONOLOGY; Introduction: The war stories we tell; (Hi)stories about the Vietnamese; American storytelling; Elements of American Vietnam War literature; Narrative omissions and inclusions; The literary canon and criticism; The chapters in this collection; 1 Michael Herr's traumatic New Journalism: Dispatches; Mapping the terrain; New Journalism; New Journalism and Dispatches; Trauma and Dispatches; 2 Duong Thu Huong's Paradise of the Blind and Novel Without a Name, and B.o Ninh's The Sorrow of War: Corrective, politically i. |
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| 格式化内容附注: | Context: ?.i M.i and disillusionmentProvocation 1: Glory and sacrifice are sucker punches; Provocation 2: From "'Nam vs. The World" to the worldedness of Viet Nam; Conclusion; 3 "Ten years burning down the road": Trauma, mourning, and postmemory in Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country; On the road to Washington; The summer of 1984: The Vietnam War and postmemory; "Bringing it all back home": The Hopewell veterans; Gender after the war in Viet Nam; Dwayne's texts: "Humping the boonies"; Reading the VVM; Conclusion; 4 War, gender, and race in le thi diem thuy's The Gangster We Are All Looking For. |
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| 格式化内容附注: | The author: le thi diem thuyThe story: The Gangster We Are All Looking For; Conclusion: Vietnamese Americans and US literature; 5 The home front and the front lines in the war novels of Tim O'Brien; Introduction; Going After Cacciato; The Things They Carried; In the Lake of the Woods; 6 The ghost that won't be exorcised: Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story; Paco's trauma; The role of community; The ghost of the Vietnam War; 7 American totem society in the twenty-first century: Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke, Karl Marlantes's Matterhorn, and Tatjana S; Revived interest in the Vietnam War. |
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| 格式化内容附注: | MasculinitiesTree of Smoke, masculinities, and blood sacrifice; Matterhorn, masculinities, and blood sacrifice; The Lotus Eaters, masculinities, and blood sacrifice; Conclusion; FURTHER READING; WORKS CITED; INDEX. |