Thirty years after
Subtitle: new essays on Vietnam war, literature and film, and art
By: edited by Mark Heberle
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9781443801232
Notes: "The essays in this volume derive from a three-day conference at the University of Hawai' i at Mānoa and the East-West Center during Veterans Week 2005 (November 8-10), open to the public, that commemorated the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the American war in Viet Nam."--Preface p. [xiii].

Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. The American war -- Chap. 1. Keynote address : Thirty years after / Tim O'Brien --; title: Chap. 2.; title: Thirty years after : the archaeologies /; title: Philip D. Beidler --; title: Chap. 3.; title: Quiet colonialism : Graham Greene's The quiet American /; title: Rebecca Kumar --; title: Chap. 4.; title: The Vietnam War film, victimized veterans, and the disappearing woman /; title: Gina Weaver -- Chap. 5. The labyrinth of myth and gender in Tim O'Brien's Going after Cacciato /; title: Susan Farrell --; title: Chap. 6.; title: Speaking of trauma : untold and retold tales in The things they carried / Mark A. Heberle --; title: Chap. 7.; title: Addressing an unjust past : narrating history in In the Lake of the Woods and the Supreme Court /; title: Warren Rawson --; title: Chap. 8.; title: America, Viet Nam and the poetics of guilt /; title: Matthew Hill -- Chap. 9.; title: Yusef Komunyakaa, the US military, the interracial DMZ / Nancy Esposito --; title: Chap. 10.; title: Refusal to be can(n)on fodder : African American representation of the Vietnam War and canon formation /; title: Shirley Hanshaw --; title: Chap. 11.; title: In their own voices : the Chicano experience in Vietnam War literature / Catherine Calloway -- Part II. The Vietnamese war --; title: Chap. 1.; title: Reconciliation through literature : mirrors and windows /; title: Wayne Karlin --; title: Chap. 2. Vietnamese diaspora and California /; title: Andrew Lam --; title: Chap. 3.; title: The Vietnamese land reform program as literary theme /; title: John C. Schafer --; title: Chap. 4.; title: Beyond the American canon : Paradise of the blind, the politics of family, and the economics of affect /; title: Steven P. Liparulo --; title: Chap. 5.; title: Tran Van Dinh's No passenger on the river : a lost foundation text /; title: Michele Janette --; title: Chap. 6.; title: "Unbreakable faith" : Vietnamese poetry about the U.S.-Vietnam War /; title: Andrew Wilson --; title: Chap. 7.; title: The literature of trauma : reading the sorrow of love in Bao Ninh's The sorrow of war /; title: Ryan Skinnell --; title: Chap. 8.; title: Memorializing the anti-American resistance : the "Vietnam War" in Vietnamese film /; title: Pierre Asselin --; title: Chap. 9.; title: An unforgotten song : representations of the American War in Vietnamese song after 1975 /; title: Jason Gibbs --; title: Chap. 10.; title: Most beautiful words : Linh Dinh's poetics of disgust /; title: Susan Schultz --; title: Part III. Other cultural representations -- Chap. 1.; title: Apocalypse now and Charm school : film and literature in the making of CNN's Tailwind tale of nerve gas and defectors /; title: Jerry Lembcke -- Chap. 2.; title: Virtual Nam : intertextuality and authenticity in Vietnam War video games /; title: Bruce Esplin --; title: Chap. 3.; title: Vietnam veterans memorials as image events : exorcising the specter of Vietnam /; title: Neil P. Baird --; title: Chap. 4.; title: Aesthetic limbo : memory making at the Vietnam Women's Memorial /; title: Susan Eastman --; title: Chap. 5.; title: A season in hell : art song and the American war in Vietnam / Timothy P. Kinsella -- Chap. 6. "Down in Vietnam our comrades" : Vietnam in Italian folk and popular song / Alessandro Portelli --; title: Chap. 7.; title: Why Italians don't read Tim O'Brien : the case of Vietnam War literature in Italian translation / Stefano Rosso --; title: Part IV. The American wars -- Chap. 1.; title: Tarzan, Vietnam, and the ambiguity of American empire /; title: Alex Vernon --; title: Chap. 2.; title: Feral soldiers : Casualties of war and In the Valley of Elah / Lorrie Goldensohn --; title: Chap. 3.; title: Vietnam and imaginary geography in Anthony Swofford's Jarhead /; title: Michael Zeitlin --; title: Chap. 4. "I'm not trying to compete with you" : Gulf War fiction and discursive space / Elisabeth H. Piedmont-Martin --; title: Chap. 5.; title: The lesson unlearned : moral trauma in Andrew Jolly's A time of soldiers /; title: Janis Haswell --; title: Chap. 6.; title: Loyalties real and unreal in Robert Stone's Outerbridge reach /-- Christopher S. Schreiner.