Memories of a lost war
Subtitle: American poetic responses to the Vietnam War
By: Subarno Chattarji.
Series: Oxford English monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Literature and the conflict.; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; War poetry, American -- History and criticism.
Description: "Memories of a Lost War is a study of poetry written primarily by Vietnam veterans during and after the war. Drawing on a wealth of material often published in small presses and journals, the book highlights the horrors of war and the continuing traumas of veterans in a post-Vietnam America that has largely rewritten the Vietnam war to suit dominant national ideologies. The analysis dwells on poems of solidarity wherein American veterans reach out to their former enemy. The concluding chapter on Vietnamese poems in translation extends the circle of memory and trauma. In its inclusion of Vietnamese perspectives, Chattarji's study marks a departure from earlier works that have largely concentrated on Vietnam as a war rather than as a country. This is a unique and significant addition to Vietnam studies and will be of interest to specialists in literature and culture studies, as well as those with a more general interest in the subject."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references (p. [227]-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. POLITICS AND POETRY: SOME CONTEXTS; title: AND PROBLEMS FOR AMERICAN POETRY; title: OF THE VIETNAM WAR; title: 2. STATESIDE POETRY: PROTEST AND; title: PROPHECY; title: 3. VETERAN POETRY: PROTEST AND ANGUISH-; title: BRIGIGING THE WAR HOME; title: 4. VETERAN POETRY: COMBAT EXPERIENCE-; title: THE ACTUALITY AND THE NEED TO BEAR WITNESS; title: 5. VETERAN POETRY: THE AFTERMATH; title: 6. THE 'OTHER': VIETNAMESE POETIC; title: :REPRESENTATIONS.