This book revisits the American canon of novels, memoirs, and films about the war in Vietnam, in order to trace the strategies of representation that establish American soldiers and veterans as the most significant victims of the war, and to investigate the mythologization of "Vietnam" in the American cultural narrative of the war.
This book revisits the American canon of novels, memoirs, and films about the war in Vietnam, in order to trace the strategies of representation that establish American soldiers and veterans as the most significant victims of the war, and to investigate the mythologization of "Vietnam" in the American cultural narrative of the war.
Aleksandra Musiä is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. She is the author of articles on the American war in Vietnam and American representations of World War II, and the co-editor, with Justyna Jajszczok, of The Body in History, Culture, and the Arts (Routledge 2019).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Secret Histories Chapter 1: Vietnam Syndromes Chapter 2: Myth and Representations of the Vietnamese Landscape Chapter 3: Representations of the Victims of "Vietnam" Conclusion: Don't Support the Troops
Introduction: Secret Histories Chapter 1: Vietnam Syndromes Chapter 2: Myth and Representations of the Vietnamese Landscape Chapter 3: Representations of the Victims of "Vietnam" Conclusion: Don't Support the Troops
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