Arms and the Self - War, the Military, and Autobiographical Writing

Informationen zum Autor Alex Vernon is assistant professor of English and chair of American Studies at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. He is author of most succinctly bred (The Kent State University State University Press, 2006) and Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien (2004), and coauthor of The Eyes of Orion: Five Tank Lieutenants in the Persian Gulf War (The Kent State University Press, 1999). Klappentext Includes essays ranging from Xenophon's memoir of his two-year march with the mercenaries of the Persian Prince Cyrus! through Canadian accounts of the Boer War and American civilian women's narratives of confinement in WWII Japanese internment camps! to Vietnam veterans' online testimonials and post - Persian Gulf War memoirs. Zusammenfassung Includes essays ranging from Xenophon's memoir of his two-year march with the mercenaries of the Persian Prince Cyrus! through Canadian accounts of the Boer War and American civilian women's narratives of confinement in WWII Japanese internment camps! to Vietnam veterans' online testimonials and post - Persian Gulf War memoirs.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: The Kent State University Press, Alex (EDT) Veron
• Mitarbeit: Alex Vernon (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Kent State Univ Pr
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.01.2005
• EAN: 9780873389105
• ISBN: 978-0-87338-910-5
• Seiten: 305
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Biographien, Autobiographien