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Ngo, Lập Tu McLaughlin Robert L. "Literature as allusion processing and teaching Vietnam-American war literature." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1225141141&SrchMode=1&sid=6&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1177941823&clientId=43838.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.Title from title page screen, viewed on April 30, 2007. Dissertation Committee: Robert L. McLaughlin (chair), Ronald Strickland, Aaron Smith. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 196-207) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Middleton, Alexis Turley. "A true war story : reality and fiction in the American literature and film of the Vietnam War /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2467.pdf.
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Dozier, Kimberly S. Hesse Douglas Dean. "Reading Vietnam teaching literature using historically-situated texts /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9914567.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1998.Title from title page screen, viewed July 10, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Douglas Hesse (chair), C. Anita Tarr, Charles Harris. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 232-241) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Naito, Hiroaki. "Vietnam fought and imagined : the images of the mythic frontier in American Vietnam War literature." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5101/.
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This thesis seeks to examine how a particularly American ideological formation called the frontier myth has been re-enacted, challenged, and redefined in the literary works written by several American authors. Existing researches about the pervasiveness of the frontier mythology in American culture written by scholars such as Richard Slotkin, Richard Drinnon, and others demonstrate that, as the myth of the frontier–––the popular discourse that romanticizes early white settlers’ violent confrontation with American Indians in the New World wilderness–––has been deeply inscribed in America’s collective consciousness, when they faced with the war in a remote Southeast Asian country, many Americans have adopted its conventional narrative patterns, images, and vocabulary to narrate their experiences therein. The word, Indian Country–––a military jargon that US military officers commonly used to designate hostile terrains outside the control of the South Vietnamese government–––would aptly corroborate their argument. Drawing upon Edward Said’s exegesis of a structure of power that privileged Europeans assumed when they gazed at and wrote about the place and people categorized as “Oriental,” I contend that the images of the frontier frequently appearing in US Vietnam War accounts are America’s “imaginative geography” of Vietnam. By closely looking at the Vietnamese landscapes that American authors describe, I intend to investigate the extent to which the authors’ view of Vietnam are informed, or limited, by the cultural imperatives of the myth. At the same time, I will also look for instances in which the authors attempt to challenge the very discourse that they have internalized. I will read several novels and stories of American Vietnam War literature in a loosely chronological manner––from earlyier American Vietnam novels such as William Lederer’s and Eugene Burdick’s The Ugly American (1958), through three notable Vietnam–vet writers’ works published between the late ’70s and ’90s that include Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato (1978) and The Things They Carried (1990), to Denis Johnson’s Tree of Smoke (2007), a recent novel produced after 9/11. Hereby, I aim to explain the larger cultural/political significances that underlie the images of the frontier appearing in American Vietnam War narratives, and their vicissitude through time. While the authors of early US Vietnam War narratives reproduced stereotypical representations of the land and people of Vietnam that largely reflected the colonial/racist ideologies embedded in the myth, the succeeding generations of authors, with varying degrees of success, have undermined what has conventionally been regarded as America’s master narrative, by, for instance, deliberately subverting the conventional narrative patterns of the frontier myth, or by incorporating into their narratives the Vietnamese points of view that have often been omitted in earlier US Vietnam War accounts.
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Chattarji, Subarno. "'Memories of a lost war' : a study of American poetic responses to the Vietnam War." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297326.
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Boyle, Brenda Marie. "Prisoners of war formations of masculinities in Vietnam war fiction and film /." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1060873937.
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Middleton, Alexis Turley. "A True War Story: Reality and Simulation in the American Literature and Film of the Vietnam War." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2008. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1492.
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The Vietnam War has become an important symbol and signifier in contemporary American culture and politics. The word "Vietnam" contains many meanings and narratives, including both the real events of the American War in Vietnam and the fictional representations of that war. Because we live in a reality that is composed of both lived experience and simulacra, defined by Baudrillard as a hyperreality, fiction and simulation are capable of representing particular realities. Vietnam was shaped by simulacra of Vietnam itself as well as simulacra of previous American conflicts, especially World War II; however, the hyperreality of Vietnam differed largely from that of World War II. Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried are highly fictionalized texts that accurately portray particular realities of Vietnam. These texts are capable of presenting truth about Vietnam through their use of specific metafictional techniques, which continually remind readers and viewers that the story being told is not reality but a story. By emphasizing the fictional elements of their narratives, Apocalypse Now and The Things They Carried point to the constructed nature of reality and empower readers to recognize the possibility of truth in different, even conflicting, narratives.
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Miller, Katherine R. "The place where curses are manufactured : four poets of the Vietnam War." Thesis, University of Kent, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.277367.
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The Vietnam War was unique among American wars. To pinpoint its uniqueness, it was necessary to look for a non-American voice that would enable me to articulate its distinctiveness and explore the American character as observed by an Asian. Takeshi Kaiko proved to be most helpful. From his novel, Into a Black Sun, I was able to establish a working pair of 'bookends' from which to approach the poetry of Walter McDonald, Bruce Weigl, Basil T. Paquet and Steve Mason. Chapter One is devoted to those seemingly mismatched 'bookends,' Walt Whitman and General William C. Westmoreland, and their respective anthropocentric and technocentric visions of progress and the peculiarly American concept of the "open road" as they manifest themselves in Vietnam. In Chapter, Two, I analyze the war poems of Walter McDonald. As a pilot, writing primarily about flying, his poetry manifests General Westmoreland's technocentric vision of the 'road' as determined by and manifest through technology. Chapter Three focuses on the poems of Bruce Weigl. The poems analyzed portray the literal and metaphorical descent from the technocentric, 'numbed' distance of aerial warfare to the world of ground warfare, and the initiation of a 'fucking new guy,' who discovers the contours of the self's interior through a set of experiences that lead from from aerial insertion into the jungle to the degradation of burning human feces. Chapter Four, devoted to the thirteen poems of Basil T. Paquet, focuses on the continuation of the descent begun in Chapter Two. In his capacity as a medic, Paquet's entire body of poems details his quotidian tasks which entail tending the maimed, the mortally wounded and the dead. The final chapter deals with Steve Mason's JohnnY's Song, and his depiction of the plight of Vietnam veterans back in "The World" who are still trapped inside the interior landscape of their individual "ghettoes" of the soul created by their war-time experiences
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Gilbert, Adam John. "Morality, soldier-poetry, and the American war in Vietnam." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607787.
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Fenn, Jeffery W. "Culture under stress : American drama and the Vietnam War." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28668.
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The dissertation undertakes an analysis of the dramatic literature engendered by the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s, and illustrates how the dramas of that period reflect the stresses and anxieties that assailed contemporary American society. It investigates the formative influences on the drama, the various styles in which it emerged, and the recurring themes and motifs. The thesis proceeds from the premise that the events of the 1960s fractured American society in a manner unknown since the Civil War. It demonstrates that the social, political, and intellectual divisiveness that characterized the society was interpreted in the theatre by dramatic metaphors of fragmentation of the individual and collective psyche, and that this fragmentation was reflected in characters who experienced a collective and individual sense of loss of cultural identity, cohesion and continuity.
Included in the examination of the drama is a description of how the social upheaval of the period influenced playwrights to undertake a reassessment of American values and ethics, and to interpret in dramatic form the nature of the trauma of Vietnam for American society. The study includes a discussion of how individual and collective reality is based on cultural conditioning, and how the challenging of cultural myth in an extra-cultural milieu.Arts, Faculty of
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Quick, Benjamin A. "The Shape of Grief: A Generational Legacy of the Vietnam War." DigitalCommons@USU, 2011. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/933.
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As Tim O'Brien advises in The Things They Carried, "You can tell a true war story by the way it never seems to end" (76). If the war story never seems to end, then how does it manifest in future generations? In my case, as the first-born son of a Vietnam veteran, the war story has played out physically, within my body, in the form of an Agent Orange-related disability. How has my response to disability affected both the fine details and the overall texture of my life? My father also suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for several years after his return, a timeframe that happens to coincide with the first and most impressionable years of my life. How has this affected my relationships to my disability and to the world at large? Lastly, what can a chronicle of Agent Orange in Vietnam tell me about my own story?
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Turner, Simon John. "The man in the valley : American literature of the Vietnam war and aesthetics of sceptical realism." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.478934.
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Smihula, John Henry. ""Where a thousand corpses lie" critical realism and the representation of war in American film and literature since 1960 /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3339147.
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Haime, Kyla. "The soldier's perspective in A rumor of war." Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1261351164.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Cleveland State University, 2009.Abstract. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jan. 13, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 36-37). Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center and also available in print.
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DeBrock, Jacob. "Behind Every Curtain is Another Trick:Narrative, Magic, and Trauma in In the Lake of the Woods." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1513273387030866.
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Fajardo, Margaret A. "Comparing war stories : literature by Vietnamese Americans, U.S.-Guatemalans, and Filipino Americans /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3277200.
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Richardson, Nathan Joseph. "Transcription and Translation of the 1658 Jesuit Annual Letter, Vietnam." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6870.
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Transcription and Translation of the 1658 Jesuit Annual Letter, VietnamNathan Joseph RichardsonDepartment of Spanish and Portuguese, BYUMaster of ArtsThis project provides a translation and two transcriptions (semi-diplomatic and normalized) of the 1658 Jesuit Annua letter sent from the Tonkin kingdom (now Vietnam) to Jesuit authorities back in Portugal. Specifically, the letter, which is housed in the archives of the worldwide Society of Jesus in Rome (folder 89, Japonica Sinica series, fols 286-290v), reports the progress of the Jesuit mission in that kingdom. However, it also contains a fascinating account of contemporary political and other events there. The purpose of this project is to make this letter accessible to a variety of readers. The English translation makes the letter's contents available to an English readership interested in Portugal's expansion in Asia, especially the activities of Jesuit missionaries in Vietnam; the normalized transcription is aimed at those with similar interests who read Portuguese; and the semi-diplomatic transcription, together with a facsimile of the original manuscript, is intended for those who study the history of the Portuguese language and are particularly concerned with the edition of early modern texts.
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Tran, Elizabeth. "Dragon Tiger Goat: A Novel." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1584453224864606.
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Bragatto, Susana. "Jornalismo literário como literatura: o \'Novo Jornalismo\' de Armies of the Night, de Norman Mailer." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-24102007-150804/.
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O principal objetivo deste trabalho é investigar a forma dialética presente em Exércitos da Noite, uma das mais reconhecidas e ousadas obras do romancista norte-americano Norman Mailer. Publicada originalmente em 1968, Exércitos é um relato pessoal do autor sobre sua vivência na Marcha sobre o Pentágono, manifestação civil que reuniu milhares de pessoas em Washington, em outubro de 1967, em protesto contra a política americana na guerra do Vietnã. O livro, dividido em duas partes, recria, na primeira, uma perspectiva ficcional dos eventos, em contraste com a segunda, na qual Mailer procura criar uma visão histórica sobre os episódios da Marcha, recorrendo, para tanto, a técnicas de reportagem e excertos da cobertura da mídia no período, num tom fundamentalmente ensaístico. Permeando toda a narrativa, há o explosivo contexto da vida norte-americana do período, com sua cultura hippie, a emergência dos movimentos civis e a queima pública das cartas de convocação para a guerra. A presente dissertação analisa este peculiar romance à luz de textos centrais das áreas de teoria literária e estudos jornalísticos, além de evocar outros autores que, como Mailer, fizeram parte de um grande contexto renovador do jornalismo literário nos anos 1960 e 1970 chamado, genericamente, de Novo Jornalismo, de origem norte-americana e repercussões profundas, inclusive no Brasil. Com tal abordagem, intento alcançar uma melhor compreensão acerca dos mecanismos ficcionais que sustentam e aproximam os discursos jornalístico e literário, nomeadamente na obra de Mailer, que o crítico do New York Times Alfred Kazin definiu à época como um \"diário-ensaio-tratado-sermão\", com Mailer desempenhando seu dileto papel ficcional de visionário da América.The main purpose of this issue is to investigate the dialectic form on Norman Mailer\'s acclaimed and Pulitzer-winner novel The Armies of the Night: The History as a Novel, The Novel as History, first published in 1968 as the author\'s personal account of the March on the Pentagon, a peace rally that shook Washington D.C. for three days in October 1967 and gathered thousands of civilians on a protest against the american policies concerning the Vietnam War. The book, divided into two parts, recreates, on the first, a fictional perspective of the events, while the second intends to convey a historical view on the same context, by mixing reporting techniques, excerpts from the media coverage and essayistic interventions. Throughout the whole book runs the thread of the mythic north-american background of the period, with its hippie culture, civilian movements and burned draft cards. Drawing on key authors from the literary and journalistic studies, this work pursuits a better understanding of the specific fictional procedures shared both by journalism and literature, namely on Armies of the Night, Mailer\'s new journalistic piece, that the New York Times critic Alfred Kazin defined tentatively as a \"diary-essaytract- sermon\", with Mailer playing his favorite part of the American visionary.
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Terrazas, Serena Rachelle. "Transcription and Translation of a Letter from the Japonica Sinica 85 of the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6076.
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This project is a transcription and translation of a letter from the Japonica Sinica 85 collection of the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu. It was written by an unidentified Jesuit who recounts three years of history (1655-1657) of the Tonkin kingdom (in present-day Vietnam), replacing the annual letters from those years that had been lost at sea. The account includes descriptions of their wars with Cochinchina, the succession of the kingship, and the funeral and burial of the Lê-Triṇh lord, Triṇh Tráng.
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Paula, Rodrigo Martini. "A reavaliação da Guerra do Vietnã apresentada no romance The short timer (197(), de Gustav Hasford, e em sua adaptação fílmica Fullmetal JAcket (1987), de Stanley Kubrick /." São José do Rio Preto : [s.n.], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/99156.
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Orientador: Giséle Manganelli FernandesBanca: Manuel Fernando Medina
Banca: Álvaro Luis Hattnher
Resumo: Este projeto examina as maneiras pelas quais a obra The Short-Timers (1979), de Gustav Hasford, e o filme Full Metal Jacket (1987), de Stanley Kubrick, revisitam a Guerra do Vietnã, dessacralizando a História oficial. Em seu romance The Short Timers (1979), o veterano Gustav Hasford narra a trajetória de um soldado e de seus companheiros durante o treinamento militar e o posterior combate no Vietnã. Tomando a perspectiva desse soldado, o narrador focaliza esse episódio da história dos Estados Unidos de forma diversa da tradicional; isto é, denunciando as angústias e dores vividas pelas tropas no treinamento básico e na batalha. Stanley Kubrick dirigiu a adaptação dessa narrativa para o cinema que recebeu o título de Full Metal Jacket (1987). Nela podemos notar como a guerra é revisitada de modo crítico. O cineasta apresenta as narrativas pessoais da personagem principal. Para analisar as obras literária e cinematográfica, serão utilizados textos teóricos acerca da relação entre Literatura e História (Hutcheon, 1989, 1993; White, 1985; Benjamin, 1985) e sobre Pós-Modernismo (Jameson, 1997; Hutcheon, 1989). Com base nestas teorias, propomos verificar como a Literatura e o Cinema representam a Guerra do Vietnã na contemporaneidade, mostrando diferentes pontos de vista sobre o conflito
Abstract: This project investigates the ways in which Gustav Hasford's The Short-Timers (1979) and Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987) revisit the Vietnam War rethinking official History. In his novel, The Short-Timers, the Vietnam veteran Gustav Hasford narrates the path of a soldier and his mates during military training and later combat in Vietnam. Taking this soldier's perspective, the narrator focuses on this episode in American history differently than usual; that is, calling attention to the anguish and pains that the troops go through on training and in battle. Stanley Kubrick directed the adaptation of this work into the film Full Metal Jacket, in which can be noticed how war can be critically reevaluated. The filmmaker presents personal accounts by the main character. For the analyses, theories about the relationship between Literature and History (Hutcheon, 1989, 1993; White, 1985; Benjamin, 1985) and Post-Modernism (Jameson, 1997; Hutcheon, 1989) will be used. Based on those theories, we propose to investigate how Literature and Cinema represent the Vietnam War showing other points of view about this conflict
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Boney, Kristy Rickards. "Mapping topographies in the anglo and German narratives of Joseph Conrad, Anna Seghers, James Joyce, and Uwe Johnson." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1164813302.
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Paula, Rodrigo Martini [UNESP]. "A reavaliação da Guerra do Vietnã apresentada no romance The short timer (197(), de Gustav Hasford, e em sua adaptação fílmica Fullmetal JAcket (1987), de Stanley Kubrick." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/99156.
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Este projeto examina as maneiras pelas quais a obra The Short-Timers (1979), de Gustav Hasford, e o filme Full Metal Jacket (1987), de Stanley Kubrick, revisitam a Guerra do Vietnã, dessacralizando a História oficial. Em seu romance The Short Timers (1979), o veterano Gustav Hasford narra a trajetória de um soldado e de seus companheiros durante o treinamento militar e o posterior combate no Vietnã. Tomando a perspectiva desse soldado, o narrador focaliza esse episódio da história dos Estados Unidos de forma diversa da tradicional; isto é, denunciando as angústias e dores vividas pelas tropas no treinamento básico e na batalha. Stanley Kubrick dirigiu a adaptação dessa narrativa para o cinema que recebeu o título de Full Metal Jacket (1987). Nela podemos notar como a guerra é revisitada de modo crítico. O cineasta apresenta as narrativas pessoais da personagem principal. Para analisar as obras literária e cinematográfica, serão utilizados textos teóricos acerca da relação entre Literatura e História (Hutcheon, 1989, 1993; White, 1985; Benjamin, 1985) e sobre Pós-Modernismo (Jameson, 1997; Hutcheon, 1989). Com base nestas teorias, propomos verificar como a Literatura e o Cinema representam a Guerra do Vietnã na contemporaneidade, mostrando diferentes pontos de vista sobre o conflito
This project investigates the ways in which Gustav Hasford’s The Short-Timers (1979) and Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987) revisit the Vietnam War rethinking official History. In his novel, The Short-Timers, the Vietnam veteran Gustav Hasford narrates the path of a soldier and his mates during military training and later combat in Vietnam. Taking this soldier’s perspective, the narrator focuses on this episode in American history differently than usual; that is, calling attention to the anguish and pains that the troops go through on training and in battle. Stanley Kubrick directed the adaptation of this work into the film Full Metal Jacket, in which can be noticed how war can be critically reevaluated. The filmmaker presents personal accounts by the main character. For the analyses, theories about the relationship between Literature and History (Hutcheon, 1989, 1993; White, 1985; Benjamin, 1985) and Post-Modernism (Jameson, 1997; Hutcheon, 1989) will be used. Based on those theories, we propose to investigate how Literature and Cinema represent the Vietnam War showing other points of view about this conflict
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Gifford, Alan Douglas. "Vietnam war fiction: The narrative quest." 1989. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI8917353.
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Because the Vietnam war was like no other, it is not so surprising that the fiction and other literature written about this war experience is also different from that which has followed America's involvement in other conflicts. While there are clear affinities with previous "war novels," the best fiction of Vietnam uses literary forms and strategies for meaning-making which are as different from those of the earlier periods as are the sophisticated high-technology weapons from the muzzle-loaders of America's Civil War. Stephen Wright, Tim O'Brien, Philip Caputo, James Webb, Ron Kovic, and other Vietnam writers have been on a narrative quest, searching for a way to examine the truth of Vietnam. The quest has changed the traditional effort to portray "the war novel" in a generically pure idiom. Efforts to recall a life through autobiography find difficulty in keeping Vietnam in perspective, reflecting profoundly changed men's difficulty in coming home unshattered.
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Zur, Dafna. "Modern Korean literature as testimony to war : from the Korean War to the Vietnam War." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12309.
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The Korean War was one of the most traumatic events in twentieth-century
Korea. The war reshaped Korea's physical landscape and transformed its social and
political structures. The war was, in origin, a civil conflict, a struggle between two
opposing ideologies and a war that ended with an armistice that divided the Korean
peninsula. These factors affected the way Korean writers expressed their experiences in
it. The works I examine in my thesis are imbued with a strong sense of helplessness.
Applying trauma theory used in psychoanalysis, I find that the helplessness is the result
of a failure to deal with the traumatic events of the Korean War, a failure that I attribute
to political and social causes. I examine the inability to resolve trauma in the works, and
arrive at an understanding of the significance of an audience and a shared collective
narrative in the resolution of private and public trauma.
Between 1967 and 1975, South Korea was involved in the Vietnam War. During
the two decades following the Korean War, political and social changes had taken place
on the peninsula. Several works about the Vietnam War reflect Korea's turbulent
changes. I show how the Vietnam War presented Koreans with the temporal and spatial
opportunity to reflect upon the past, and paved the way to express unresolved trauma and
explore forgotten memories.
Literature about the Korean and Vietnam Wars contributes to our understanding
of war and appoints the reader to the complex function of listener to experiences of
trauma, hence allowing for a resolution of the authors' (and listeners') trauma. At the
same time, reading literature as testimony is complicated when the reader takes into
account the way texts are shaped by the political and social contexts surrounding their
creation and the ways in which texts are read. I discuss how the anti-communist struggle
as a collective narrative stifled the expressions of trauma and shaped the way memory is
discussed in Korean War literature, and show how Vietnam War literature provides
insights into how social and political changes allowed for the beginning of the resolution
of Korean War trauma.
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Hundt, Stefanie. "The warrior in the memoirs and fiction of Native American Vietnam War literature /." Diss., 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3237494.
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Bonn, Maria Stella. "The literary cartography of the Vietnam war." 1990. http://books.google.com/books?id=WqZlAAAAMAAJ.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 1990.eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 194-201).
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Womack, Anne-Marie. "Deserting Gender: A Feminist Rhetorical Approach to Vietnam War Novels." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9179.
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Female characters and references to femininity throughout American war literature disrupt discursive and biological divisions of the masculine and feminine. In examining gender and war literature over the twentieth century, I propose an alternative genealogy of American war literature in which narratives since the end of the nineteenth century initiate two related patterns of gender representation that Vietnam War literature dramatically expands: they critique aggression, camaraderie, and heroism, rejecting these traditional sites of masculinity through desertion narratives, and they harness sentimentality, domesticity, motherhood, and penetration, embracing these traditional sites of femininity in ways that disrupt gender norms. By examining these sites of cross-gender identification through psychoanalytic, rhetorical, and feminist methods, I argue that narratives by Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Vonnegut, Tim O'Brien, Stephen Wright, and Larry Heinemann reveal the power of contemporary redefinitions of gender by absorbing feminist discourse into the performance of masculinity.
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Osborn, Julie Annette Riggs. "Defoliating the mind : a transnational history of war fiction on Vietnam." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20630.
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Melissakis, Catherine-Jeanette. "Vietnam war literature: reflections of the sustained tension between politics, history, morality and the effect of war on human nature." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/26.
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Vietnam War literature is a reflection of a sustained tension between politics and history on the one hand and morality and the effect of the war on human nature on the other hand. Although the authors under discussion urge the reader to forget the political, moral and historical milieu of the Vietnam War, it is impossible to separate the war from those three factors and by extension, the literature that stems from it. I have chosen Philip Caputo’s A Rumor of War (1977) and Robert Mason’s Chickenhawk (1983) because I think they represent, perhaps in the simplest and least obtrusive way, the voices of 55 000 men whose names appear on a black, granite wall in Washington. The authors chose to write their respective memoirs for the Everyman who died in, or lived through, the aberration that was Vietnam. Through their reconstruction of the war and their experiences, they keep the demand for recognition of those who fought (whether morally sanctioned or not) in Vietnam for their country. While American society tried to force the war from its psyche because so many of them thought it was unjust, immoral and unnecessary, authors like Caputo and Mason demanded that the nation examine itself on the whole and reconsider its political endeavours. But perhaps one of the starkest revelations is their portrayal of the corruption of innocence, loyalty and idealism of those soldiers who represented their country abroad.
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Weaver, Gina Marie. "Ideologies of forgetting: American erasure of women's sexual trauma in the Vietnam War." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/20667.
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Vietnam War literature frequently mentions the rape of Vietnamese women. Academic histories of the war and literary criticism largely refuse to address rape and sexual assault, however, and popular American narratives of the war seem to have forgotten this type of atrocity entirely. This dissertation argues that the erasure of Vietnamese women's rape from the Vietnam War story has been necessary for the rehabilitation of the Vietnam veteran as a victim and has largely occurred through film. Through an analysis of Vietnamese writing and testimony, American veterans' testimony, and literature by veterans, this dissertation demonstrates that war rape by American soldiers was a widespread phenomenon. This analysis also indicates reasons Vietnamese women were particularly subject to sexual violence; it makes manifest veterans' own interpretation of the causes of their aggressive acts. It suggests that American rape of Vietnamese women was ultimately the byproduct of the military's misogynist training techniques and the ideals of masculinity prized in and validated by Cold War American culture. Though veterans have long testified to such abuses, Hollywood productions of the war have altered or contained veteran narratives in such a way as to deny these atrocities occurred or to suggest that they were the acts of deviants rather than typical soldiers.
Trauma studies has been an enabler of these narratives of victimhood, as it has conferred a blanket victim status to all Vietnam veterans. Such status denies that much of the trauma from which Vietnam veterans suffer stems from the aggressive acts they committed against the Vietnamese and is thus of a different nature than the trauma of Holocaust or incest survivors. This dissertation argues that American narratives of the war have used the "victimized veteran" to represent the U.S. itself as a victim in the Vietnam War rather than the aggressor. Ultimately, the dissertation suggests that true healing and acceptance of Vietnam veterans cannot occur until the truth of the acts committed in Vietnam are acknowledged and understood.
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Eastman, Susan L. "Beyond the Battlefield: Direct and Prosthetic Memory of the American War in Viet Nam." 2010. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/792.
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“Beyond the Battlefield: Direct and Prosthetic Memory of the American War in Viet Nam” examines shifts in American, Viet Namese, and Philippine memorial, literary, and cinematic remembrance of the war through the cultural lenses of later wars: the Gulf War (1990-1991) and the “War on Terror” that began in 2001. As opposed to earlier portrayals of the American War in Viet Nam (1964-1975), turn-to-the-twenty-first-century representations engage in an ever-broadening collected cultural memory—a compilation of multifaceted, sometimes competing, individual and group memories—of the war. “Beyond the Battlefield” begins with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1982) because it serves as the impetus for active participation in the reception and creation of memory. It traces a multifaceted collected cultural memory pattern through the stages of recognition for servicewomen, American women, Viet Namese Women, and reconciliation between soldiers and civilians as well as between Americans and the Viet Namese—veterans and civilians alike. Ultimately, a collected cultural memory of the war encourages prosthetic memory—memories of the war acquired via mediated representation by those with no direct experience in or hereditary connection to the war. Prosthetic memory permits an ongoing memory of the war that refuses to relegate the war to the forgotten past.
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Johnston, Kelly D. ""What We Had Instead of Childhoods": Experience as Rememberance in the Vietnam of Kaiko Takeshi." 2009. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/286.
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From the arrival of American ground troops to Vietnam in early 1965 to the fall of Saigon and the takeover by the North Vietnamese in 1975, Vietnam was America’s longest war. In Vietnam, as American bombing intensified, the people of Japan were remembering their own wartime past, who had themselves experienced heavy bombing, and they began to empathize with the Vietnamese people. Kaikō Takeshi, a novelist and journalist, attempted to understand the overwhelming traumatic events of his past during World War Two and these feelings were extended to all aspects of his Vietnam writing where the present is haunted by history. By examining Kaikō’s first Vietnam novel, Into a Black Sun, I will assert how his novel sets the stage for all his later writing and the touchstone for this novel is his catharsis for his war experience. He explores one of the characteristics found within the sub-genre of Vietnam War literature and writes about horror in a visceral way that uses all five of his senses to describe atrocity. I also explore how Kaikō utilizes these five senses, but primarily his sense of vision in order to comprehend the trauma of being in Vietnam. His experience in Vietnam caused the psychological blackness and darkness of his past to once again creep into his everyday life. I also discuss how Kaikō’s use of food imagery permeates throughout his works and how food has a lot of resonance for Kaikō because it relates to war and a past of starvation.
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Simpson, Elizabeth Anne. "Dark landscapes and destructive forces : subversion of the warrior-hero archetype in the myth-destroying terrain of the Vietnam War." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/687.
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Epstein, Andrea. "Divided only by the 17th parallel : a study of similarities between American and Vietnamese soldiers in selected works." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3250.
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This dissertation undertakes a comparative study of certain works of literature concerning Vietnamese and American troops during the United States’ involvement in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and 1970s. My assumption was that during war it is possible to conclude that enemy forces behave in the same manner in order to reach the identical goal, that of victory over the ‘other’ side. I sought to ascertain how under the selfsame conditions they could be considered as enemies.
Divided only by the 17th Parallel: A Study of Similarities Between American and Vietnamese Soldiers in Selected Works
By close reading of six texts, three from Vietnamese and three from American perspectives, I have attempted to extract their similar views from each in order to create a context in which the likeness of each side is demonstrated. This was achieved by exploring four themes: those of landscape, time, conflict and ghosts. It was discovered that the protagonists’ behaviour was the same and that rather than being the others’ adversary their true enemies were found within their own ranks.
The results indicate that a wider perspective should be adopted on war than one which regards it as a simplistic binary consisting of two opposing sides. Contrary to any supposition that enemies must remain separated, there is more than enough evidence for one to conclude that they actually occupied mutual psychological territory.
Key Terms: Landscape, time, ghosts, psychological damage, Reader Response, CSR, PTSD, New Historicism, dehumanisation, conditions of war, 1954 Geneva Agreement, ideology, war literature.English Literature
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Coelho, Constança Augusta da Silva. "The Quiet American : um filme, uma leitura da história." Master's thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/539.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Estudos Americanos apresentada à Universidade AbertaResumo - Hoje em dia, o grande público tem um acesso mais imediato à História através dos filmes do que pela via da leitura e do ensino. Com efeito, o cinema converteu-se em arquivo vivo das formas do passado ou, devido à sua função social, num agudo testemunho do seu tempo e em material imprescindível para o historiador. O século passado revelou-se profícuo em conflitos bélicos, um pouco por toda a parte e os Estados Unidos não foram excepção. No espaço de uma só geração, o país participou na Segunda Guerra Mundial, atravessou meia década de crises no cenário político da Guerra Fria, participando na Guerra da Coreia e envolvendo-se no Vietname. Mas, este pequeno país no sudeste asiático impôs uma derrota intolerável, apesar da colossal desproporção de forças, primeiro face ao colonialismo francês e, posteriormente, ao imperialismo norte-americano, na luta pela sua autodeterminação e soberania. Após um silêncio pesado que se fez sentir a partir de 1973, mais precisamente desde a retirada do Vietname, as experiências traumáticas subjacentes a esta guerra surgiram no cenário cinematográfico, no final da década, com o intuito de auxiliar a sociedade americana a fazer a catarse da guerra e a cicatrizar as feridas. Nos anos de 1980, a realização de representações fílmicas sobre este conflito prosseguiu, ajudando a recuperar a confiança do país e dos seus militares, criando as condições que permitissem uma maior aceitação por parte da opinião pública, das intervenções americanas no exterior. Tendo em mente que o cinema é um testemunho da sociedade que o produziu e, portanto, uma fonte documental para a ciência histórica por excelência, esta dissertação pretende fazer uma análise histórica, política e ideológica do envolvimento americano no sudeste asiático, tendo como referente a obra cinematográfica de Phillip Noyce, The Quiet American, baseada na obra homónima de Graham Greene
Résumé - De nos jours, le public a un plus grand accès à l’Histoire à travers les films qu’a travers la lecture et l’enseignement. En effet, le cinéma s’est transformé dans les archives du passé et dû à sa fonction sociale, un témoin de notre temps et un instrument indispensable pour l’historien. Le vingtième siècle a été fécond en conflits et les Etats-Unis n’ont pas été une exception. Une génération entière du pays a participé dans la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, est passée par les crises de la Guerre Froide, a participé dans la Guerre de Corée et du Vietnam. Mais ce dernier petit pays asiatique a imposé, dans sa lutte pour l’autodétermination et souveraineté, malgré le nombre inférieur d’effectifs, une défaite intolérable, d’abord au colonialisme français et ensuite, face à l’impérialisme américain. Après un lourd silence senti à partir de 1973, surtout après la retrait du Vietnam, les expériences traumatiques de cette guerre ont surgi dans le milieu cinématographique à la fin des années 70, ayant pour but aider la société américaine a faire la catharsis de la guerre et cicatriser ses blessures. Dans les années 1980, la réalisation de films sur ce conflit a continue, aidant à récupérer la confiance du pays et de ses militaires, créant ainsi les conditions qui permettaient à l’opinion publique d’accepter les interventions américaines à l’extérieur du pays. Etant donné que le cinéma est un témoin de la société et, donc, une source de documentation pour la science historique, cette dissertation prétend faire une analyse historique, politique et idéologique sur l’engagement américain dans le sud-est asiatique, ayant comme référence l’oeuvre cinématographique de Phillip Noyce, The Quiet American, à partir de l’oeuvre homonyme de Graham Greene
Abstract - Nowadays the public has a more immediate access to History through films than through reading or teaching. As a matter of fact, cinema has become a living archive of the forms of the past or, owing to its social function, an acute testimony of its time and indispensable material to the historian. The last century has revealed prolific in wars all over the world and the United States was not an exception. Within a generation, the country participated in the Second World War, passed through half a decade of crisis in the political scenery of the Cold War, participating in the Korea War and involving itself in the Vietnam. But this small country in Southeast Asia inflicted an unbearable defeat, despite the huge disproportion of forces, firstly facing the French colonialism and later before the North-American imperialism, in the fight for its self-determination and sovereignty. After a heavy silence that was felt since 1973, more precisely since the withdrawal of the Vietnam, the traumatic experiences underlying this war came out in the filmic scenery, in the end of the decade, with the purpose of helping American society to make the catharsis of the war and to heal its wounds. In the 1980s, the production of films about this conflict went on, helping to recover the confidence of the country and of its soldiers, creating the conditions that might allow a greater acceptance by public opinion of American interventions abroad. Bearing in mind that the cinema is a testimony of society that produced it and therefore a documental source for the historical science, this dissertation intends to make a historical, political and ideological analysis of the American involvement in Southeast Asia having as object the film by Phillip Noyce, The Quiet American, based on the homonym work by Graham Greene
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Chiu-ChunChuang and 莊秋君. "Vietnam and Canton: A Study on Literature of Vietnamese Envoys’ Works on the Way to Canton." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/cx92k3.
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