Reading the Wind - The Literature of the Vietnam War

"A meaty, wide-ranging essay on Vietnam writing . . . highly useful."--"Indochina Chronology"

List of contents

Foreword vii

Acknowledgments xi

Interpretative Critique: "Reading the Wind" / Timothy J. Lomperis

Introduction: The Shoals of Yin and Yang 3

1. The Keynote: "Artistic Resolution, Societal Resolution" 13

2. The High Tide of Passion: The Impact of the Literature 25

Essay: The Crybaby Veterans 36

3. Down the Slippery Slope: Tensions Between Fact and Fiction 41

Essay: What Are the Facts? 55

4. The Great Lost Fact: The Asians 63

Essay: Reading the Asian Wind 74

5. Truth—Whither Goest Thou? The Role of Literature in Understanding the War 83

Essay: The Iliad and the Kieu: Building Understanding 93

Conclusion: America's Future in Asia (and at Home) 101

Bibliographic Commentary: "From the Fiction, Some Truths" / John Clark Pratt 115

Author/Title List for the Bibliographic Commentary 155

Bibliography of the Interpretative Critique 159

List of Named Participants 165

Conference Program 168

Index 171

About the author

Timothy J. Lomperis

Product details

• Authors: Timothy J Lomperis, Timothy J. Lomperis, John Clark Pratt, Timothy J. Lomperis
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.11.1986
• EAN: 9780822307495
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-0749-5
• No. of pages: 186
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 259 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration