"Reading the wind" : the literature of the Vietnam war : an interpretative critique
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"Reading the wind" : the literature of the Vietnam war : an interpretative critique
Duke University Press, 1987
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"Published for The Asia Society."
Bibliography: p. [159]-163
Includes index
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The decade following the American defeat in Vietnam has been filled with doubts about American politics and values, confusion over the lessons of the war, and anger about the physical and psychological suffering that occurred during the war as well as thereafter. In the years since the U.S. withdrawal, our need to make sense of Vietnam has prompted an outpouring of thinking and writing, from scholarly reappraisals of American foreign policy to highly personal accounts of participants. On the tenth anniversary of the final U. S. withdrawal, the Asia Society sponsored a conference on the Vietnam experience in American literature at which leading writers, critics, publishers, commentators, and academics wrestled with this phenomenon. Drawing on the synergy of this conference, Timothy J. Lomperis has produced an original work that focuses on the growing body of literature-including novels, personal accounts, and oral histories-which describes the experiences of American soldiers in Vietnam as well as the experience of veterans upon their return home.
Table of Contents
Foreword vii
Acknowledgments xi
Interpretative Critique: "Reading the Wind" / Timothy J. Lomperis
Introduction: The Shoals of Yin and Yang 3
1. The Keynote: "Artistic Resolution, Societal Resolution" 13
2. The High Tide of Passion: The Impact of the Literature 25
Essay: The Crybaby Veterans 36
3. Down the Slippery Slope: Tensions Between Fact and Fiction 41
Essay: What Are the Facts? 55
4. The Great Lost Fact: The Asians 63
Essay: Reading the Asian Wind 74
5. Truth-Whither Goest Thou? The Role of Literature in Understanding the War 83
Essay: The Iliad and the Kieu: Building Understanding 93
Conclusion: America's Future in Asia (and at Home) 101
Bibliographic Commentary: "From the Fiction, Some Truths" / John Clark Pratt 115
Author/Title List for the Bibliographic Commentary 155
Bibliography of the Interpretative Critique 159
List of Named Participants 165
Conference Program 168
Index 171
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