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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
Contents
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 Challenging
Michele 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'Brien
Susan 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
