Defoliating the mind : a transnational history of war fiction on Vietnam
Defoliating the mind : a transnational history of war fiction on Vietnam
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2007
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Osborn, Julie Annette Riggs
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This thesis offers a comparative analysis of select American and Vietnamese novels produced in the years following America's war in Vietnam. Centering attention on two distinct styles of literature - - American metafiction and Vietnamese novels of the renovation period - - this thesis argues that each nation's writers had difficulty reconciling personal memory with nationally constructed narratives of history. It also interrogates the ways that novelists have contributed to their nations' reassessments of their own recent histories, and incorporates their work into a more inclusive and transnational historiography. Using the metaphor of "defoliation," the thesis contends that a more complicated understanding of the conflict between the United States and Vietnam depends in part on an acknowledgment of how the war's fiery devastation spread into the realm of the imaginary for both Americans and Vietnamese - - a process of destruction written into war stories.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 116-121).
iv, 121 leaves, bound 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 116-121).
iv, 121 leaves, bound 29 cm
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction,
War in literature
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Theses for the degree of Master of Arts (University of Hawaii at Manoa). History; no. 3420
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