Vietnam War
Subtitle: Topics in Contemporary North American Literature
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781472506269
Subjects: Vietnam war, 1961-1975, literature and the war; American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century
Description: 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 rang.