Reading Vietnam Amid the War on Terror

Zusatztext 'The inclusion in this 'Vietnam' book of America's post 9/11 conflicts sharply contemporizes Hawkins' vital insights! not only making Vietnam still relevant! but teaching us the commonality of all war. Hawkins has powerfully documented the loss of innocence that must accompany any sentient soldier's combat encounters and aftermath. A haunting read.' - Donald Anderson! editor of War! Literature & the Arts and When War Becomes Personal Informationen zum Autor TY HAWKINS Assistant professor of English at Walsh University of Ohio, USA. Klappentext Argues that the examination of contemporary American war narratives can lead to newfound understandings of American literature! American history! and American national purpose. To prove such a contention! the book blends literary! rhetorical! and cultural methods of analysis. Zusammenfassung Argues that the examination of contemporary American war narratives can lead to newfound understandings of American literature! American history! and American national purpose. To prove such a contention! the book blends literary! rhetorical! and cultural methods of analysis. Inhaltsverzeichnis American Myth, Vietnam, and the Prospect of Repetition Philip Caputo's Deconstruction of the Warrior-Hero Ideal Michael Herr's Dispatches and the Allure of Combat The Perversion of Labor in Larry Heinemann's Vietnam Tim O'Brien's Search for an Ideal Femininity Community in Bobbie Ann Mason's War Fiction

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American Myth, Vietnam, and the Prospect of Repetition Philip Caputo's Deconstruction of the Warrior-Hero Ideal Michael Herr's Dispatches and the Allure of Combat The Perversion of Labor in Larry Heinemann's Vietnam Tim O'Brien's Search for an Ideal Femininity Community in Bobbie Ann Mason's War Fiction

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'The inclusion in this 'Vietnam' book of America's post 9/11 conflicts sharply contemporizes Hawkins' vital insights, not only making Vietnam still relevant, but teaching us the commonality of all war. Hawkins has powerfully documented the loss of innocence that must accompany any sentient soldier's combat encounters and aftermath. A haunting read.' - Donald Anderson, editor of War, Literature & the Arts and When War Becomes Personal

Product details

• Authors: T Hawkins, T. Hawkins
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.02.2016
• EAN: 9781349342587
• ISBN: 978-1-349-34258-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century; American Literature Readings i; American Literature Readings in the 21st Century; American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; B, Cultural Anthropology, military history, Ethnology, Social & cultural anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, History of Military, Palgrave Literature Collection, America—Literatures, North American Literature