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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Brenda M. Boyle is Associate Professor of English at Denison University, USA. Her previous publications include Masculinity and Monstrosity in Contemporary Hollywood Films (2013) and Masculinity in Vietnam War Narratives (2009). Vorwort Covering memoir, journalism and fiction, this is a wide-ranging and up-to-date guide to the Vietnam War in contemporary literature. Zusammenfassung Reverberations of the Vietnam War can still be felt in American culture. The post-9/11 United States forays into the Middle East, the invasion and occupation of Iraq especially, have evoked comparisons to the nearly two decades of American presence in Viet Nam (1954-1973). That evocation has renewed interest in the Vietnam War, resulting in the re-printing of older War narratives and the publication of new ones. This volume tracks those echoes as they appear in American, Vietnamese American, and Vietnamese war literature, much of which has joined the American literary canon. Using a wide range of theoretical approaches, these essays analyze works by Michael Herr, Bao Ninh, Duong Thu Huong, Bobbie Ann Mason, le thi diem thuy, Tim O’Brien, Larry Heinemann, and newcomers Denis Johnson, Karl Marlantes, and Tatjana Solis. 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ChallengingMichele 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’BrienSusan 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 ...
