Journal articles: 'Vietnam War Literature'

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Benoit, Remy. "Literature of the Vietnam War." English Journal 91, no. 6 (July 2002): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/821805.

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Oldham, Perry. "On Teaching Vietnam War Literature." English Journal 75, no. 2 (February 1986): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/817886.

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Judith B. Walzer. "Literature and the Vietnam War." Dissent 57, no. 3 (2010): 95–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dss.0.0169.

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Phil KIM. "Soviet Korean Literature and Vietnam War." Review of Korean Cultural Studies ll, no. 37 (June 2011): 231–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.17329/kcbook.2011..37.008.

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Ringnalda, Donald. "Fighting and Writing: America's Vietnam War Literature." Journal of American Studies 22, no. 1 (April 1988): 25–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875800032990.

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A familiar sight at the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. is people tracing onto a piece of paper the name of a relative or friend who was killed in Vietnam. On one hand, this gesture is sadly poignant, even cathartic. On the other hand, it is also symptomatic of many Americans' perceptions of the Vietnam war, whether in the sixties or in the eighties: when we have the name of something we somehow also possess the thing named. Even though there is obviously an enormous semiotic gap between that symbol, etched instone, and its object, long gone, that symbol nevertheless acquires a powerful ontological status. A traced symbol of a symbol on a symbol becomes reality. When I recently witnessed this scene, I couldn't help asking myself, “just what kind of legacy is this?”

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Johannessen, Larry R. "Young-Adult Literature and the Vietnam War." English Journal 82, no. 5 (September 1993): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/820814.

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Taylor, Gordon O., and Tobey C. Herzog. "Vietnam War Stories: Innocence Lost." American Literature 65, no. 3 (September 1993): 609. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927422.

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Collins, Rebekah Linh. "Vietnamese Literature After War and Renovation." Journal of Vietnamese Studies 10, no. 4 (2015): 82–124. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jvs.2015.10.4.82.

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This article examines the turn to the everyday in contemporary literature from Vietnam by Phan Thị Vàng Anh, Dương Phương Vinh, Nguyễn Ngọc Tư, and other writers born in the 1960s and 1970s. I analyze formal, aesthetic, ethical, and sociopolitical aspects of the literature, distinguishing post-Đổi Mới from Đổi Mới works and suggesting ways to understand the former within local and global comparative literary frameworks.

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Schultz, Robert. "Vietnam War Memorial, Night." Hudson Review 45, no. 1 (1992): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3852095.

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Guan, Ang Cheng. "Singapore and the Vietnam war." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 40, no. 2 (April 29, 2009): 353–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463409000186.

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This article attempts to fill two gaps in two sets of inter-related historiographies, that of the diplomatic history of Singapore and that of the Vietnam war. For a number of reasons, not much had been published about the foreign policy of Singapore from the historical perspective. The Southeast Asian dimension of the Vietnam war is also starkly missing from the voluminous literature on the war. This article thus tries to describe and explain Singapore's attitude towards the war as it evolved over the ten years — from 1965, when the war really began and which coincided with the year that Singapore became independent, to 1975, a period which overlaps with the first ten years of Singapore's independence. Hopefully, this study will provide an understanding of one aspect of Singapore's foreign policy in its first 10 years as well as offer one Southeast Asian perspective on the Vietnam war.

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Hellmann, John, and Don Ringnalda. "Fighting and Writing the Vietnam War." American Literature 68, no. 2 (June 1996): 493. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2928333.

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Boyle, Brenda M. "War Is Here: The Vietnam War and Canadian Literature by Robert McGill." University of Toronto Quarterly 88, no. 3 (December 2019): 187–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/utq.88.3.hr53.

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Christie, N. Bradley, Timothy J. Lomperis, and John Clark Pratt. ""Reading the Wind": The Literature of the Vietnam War." American Literature 60, no. 1 (March 1988): 153. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2926430.

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Johannessen, Larry R. "Fostering Response to Vietnam War Literature through the Arts." English Journal 86, no. 5 (September 1997): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/820447.

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Goldstein, Jonathan. "Using Literature in a Course on the Vietnam War." Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 14, no. 2 (May 5, 1989): 59–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/th.14.2.59-69.

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Goldstein, Jonathan. "Using Literature in a Course on the Vietnam War." College Teaching 37, no. 4 (November 1989): 91–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/87567555.1989.10532168.

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Robertson, Sara, and Timothy J. Lomperis. ""Reading the Wind": The Literature of the Vietnam War." Foreign Affairs 66, no. 1 (1987): 207. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20043360.

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Wittner, Lawrence S., and Michael S. Foley. "Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War." New England Quarterly 76, no. 2 (June 2003): 291. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1559906.

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Rato, Montira. "The Decline of Socialist Realism in Post-1975 Vietnamese Literature." MANUSYA 10, no. 2 (2007): 24–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-01002003.

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In Vietnam, Socialist Realism served as a tool for the party and the state to control art and literature. Its emphasis on the utilitarian function of literature and collectivism is a good explanation for why it flourished in Socialist countries, including Vietnam. However, Socialist Realism was found unsuitable for the development of Vietnamese literature in the post-1975 period. This study tries to examine how Socialist Realism was adopted and adapted in Vietnam, and why it was challenged in the post-war period.

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Vernon, Alex. "American POW Memoirs from the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War." Life Writing 7, no. 3 (December 2010): 343–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2010.514157.

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FISHER, CHRISTOPHER T. "Nation Building and the Vietnam War." Pacific Historical Review 74, no. 3 (August 1, 2005): 441–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2005.74.3.441.

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The literature on U.S. participation in the Vietnam War has recently undergone a quiet revolution due to use of the concept of nation building. Since the early 1950s nation building has been the subtext, if not the excuse, for U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia, but in the last ten years it has also become useful as a method of inquiry. This article contends that new insights regarding the signi�cance of ideologies and paradigms, particularly modernization theory, enabled the transformation. Understanding modernization theory as an ideology broke with the tradition among diplomatic historians that minimized the role of ideas in policy decisions. It also settled longstanding questions about the nature of paci�cation as either development or counterinsurgency: Counterinsurgency and development were simply different expressions of the same impulse for the United States and the South Vietnamese.

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Johannessen, Larry R. "Using a Simulation and Literature to Teach the Vietnam War." Social Studies 91, no. 2 (March 2000): 79–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00377990009602447.

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Spark, Alasdair. "Review: The Vietnam War and American Culture." Literature & History 2, no. 1 (March 1993): 128–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030619739300200132.

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St Germain, Amos. "The Weekly War: Newsmagazines and Vietnam." Journal of Popular Culture 38, no. 5 (August 2005): 978–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.2005.00163.x.

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POWELL, IRENA. "Japanese Writer in Vietnam: The Two Wars of Kaiko Ken (1931-89)." Modern Asian Studies 32, no. 1 (February 1998): 219–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x98002741.

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Our image and knowledge of the Vietnam war come predominantly from American sources, which all stress the unusual character of that war. From the despatch of the first combat units to Vietnam in 1960 to the fall of Saigon and the takeover by the North Vietnamese in 1975, it was America's longest war. American literature from Vietnam depicts the war as being waged not only against the enemy (particularly as it was often difficult to determine who and where the enemy was) but also against the elements — heat, rain, jungle, mosquitoes, leeches, dust and mud. The moral confusion surrounding this war and the disillusionment among the soldiers are well documented and portrayed in numerous films and stories. In examining, therefore, Japanese writing on the Vietnam war, it seemed sensible to concentrate on those aspects which were different, not only in order not to repeat the obvious, but also in the hope of bringing into focus the different perspective on the conflict which this writing offers.

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SILLIN, SARAH. "American Sympathizers: Confessing Illicit Feeling from the Civil War to the Vietnam War." Journal of American Studies 53, no. 3 (April 6, 2018): 613–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875818000026.

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Portraits of sympathizers recur across American literature, from nineteenth-century narratives by Edward Everett Hale Jr., Loreta Velazquez, and Walt Whitman to Viet Thanh Nguyen's twenty-first-century novel. Together, their texts elucidate why this understudied trope remains provocative. Whereas nineteenth-century literature often imagines how sympathy fosters national cohesion, feeling for the enemy threatens such stability and prompts government efforts to regulate sentiment. Sympathizers may perform loyalty to claim the authority associated with white masculinity. Yet they also gain power by confessing to criminal sentiments. This figure thus embodies fantasies of rebellion, fears of national dissolution, and the state's affective power.

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Sears, Jade. "The Domestic and Geopolitical Ramifications of the Vietnam War on South Korea." General Assembly Review 2, no. 1 (January 19, 2021): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.5206/tgar.v2i1.10520.

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The Vietnam War is a widely examined topic in the field of international relations. However, it is often viewed in terms of the strategic triangle between the United States, China, and the Soviet Union, instead of their allies. While the atrocities committed by the United States in the Vietnam War are often condemned and scrutinized in English literature, those of South Korea, their closest ally, remain less so. This essay outlines the South Korean government's political, economic, and ideological reasons for supporting the United States in Vietnam, the positive and negative consequences of this support, and the atrocities Korean troops committed against Vietnamese civilians. It argues that the legacy of the Vietnam War in South Korea is characterized by denial and neglect to this day. This essay finds that denial and neglect were experienced not only in Vietnam, but also in South Korea by veterans and the Korean government.

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Johannessen, Larry R. "When History Talks Back: Teaching Nonfiction Literature of the Vietnam War." English Journal 91, no. 4 (March 2002): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/822455.

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Bang, Eunsoo. "A Study on Counter-memory of Vietnam War in Children’s Literature." Korea Association of Literature for Children and Young Adlult 25 (December 31, 2019): 131–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.24993/jklcy.2019.12.25.131.

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Griffin, Ross. "Book review: The Vietnam war: Topics in contemporary North American literature." Media, War & Conflict 8, no. 2 (August 2015): 283–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750635215595494.

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Kagan, Richard C. "Disarming memories: Japanese, Korean, and American literature on the Vietnam war." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 32, no. 4 (December 2000): 25–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2000.10419541.

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Bislimi, Liridonë. "War, Sin and Justice in the Novel “The Quiet American”." Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics 2, no. 4 (October 30, 2020): 4–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/jeltal.2020.2.4.2.

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This research paper focuses on one of the literature works of 20th century. A work of one of the most famous English novelists, Graham Greene, “The Quiet American’’. In this novel, the writer mirrored the war in Vietnam. The key features of this novel are touching and frightening, seen only from the narrator’s point of view during the Vietnam War. The major characters are tangled in a love triangle that leads to death and sorrow.

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Lebo, Devis, I. Wayan Midhio, and Lukman Yudho Prakoso. "Comparison of The China-Vietnam-Indonesia Guerrilla War In The Perspective of The Universal War." Journal of Sosial Science 2, no. 3 (May 27, 2021): 248–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.46799/jsss.v2i3.122.

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The history of war in several countries proves that universal war is a reliable strategy to win a battle. This universal war is used by weak military forces by utilizing national resources to fight against stronger and more modern forces in weaponry, as was done by China, Vietnam and Indonesia. War is caused by several factors, among others, psychological, cultural, ideological, economic and political. In writing this literature review, the author uses methods and theories by collecting data and information through the help of various materials contained in literature (books) or also known as phenomological research types associated with qualitative descriptive and defense philosophy. From the results of literature research, the writer finds that the universal war waged by each country that has adopted this strategy is different in its implementation and the objectives to be achieved. However, the universal war that has been carried out has brought very good results in accordance with the objectives of the struggle of each country that has used it.

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Goyal, Yogita. "Un-American: Refugees and the Vietnam War." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 133, no. 2 (March 2018): 378–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2018.133.2.378.

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Viet thanh nguyen always insists that he is a refugee, not an immigrant, and that his novel the sympathizer is a war novel rather than an immigrant story (“Viet Thanh Nguyen”). In an era when the refugee has become the epicenter of debates about extreme nationalism and closed borders, the distinction between refugee and immigrant demands further parsing. Nguyen states the difference clearly when he contrasts the refugee, rendered stateless and vulnerable by persecution or catastrophe, to the immigrant, whose mobility reaffirms existing narratives of bounded territories. “Immigrant studies,” he writes, “affirms the nation-states the immigrant comes from and settles into; refugee studies brings into question the viability of the nation- state” (“Refugee Memories” 930).

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Espiritu, Yen Le. "About Ghost Stories: The Vietnam War and “Rememoration”." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 123, no. 5 (October 2008): 1700–1702. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2008.123.5.1700.

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In her book Ghostly matters: Haunting and the sociological imagination, avery gordon writes that “to study social life one must confront the ghostly aspects of it”—the experiential realities of social and political life that have been systematically hidden or erased. To confront the ghostly aspects of social life is to tell ghost stories: to pay attention to what modern history has rendered ghostly and to write into being the seething presence of the things that appear to be not there (Gordon 7–8). By most accounts, Vietnam was the site of one of the most brutal and destructive of the wars between Western imperial powers and the people of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Yet public discussions and commemorations of the Vietnam War in the United States often skip over this devastating history, thereby ignoring the war's costs borne by the Vietnamese—the lifelong costs that turn the 1975 “fall of Saigon” and the exodus from Vietnam into “the endings that are not over” (Gordon 195). Without creating an opening for a Vietnamese perspective of the war, these public deliberations refuse to remember Vietnam as a historical site, Vietnamese people as genuine subjects, and the Vietnam War as having any kind of integrity of its own (Desser).

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Dimock, W. C. "Non-Newtonian Time: Robert Lowell, Roman History, Vietnam War." American Literature 74, no. 4 (December 1, 2002): 911–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-4-911.

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Nguyên, Đình-Hoá, Bao Ninh, Frank Palmos, Phan Thanh Hao, Bao Ninh, and Phan Huy Duong. "The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam." World Literature Today 69, no. 4 (1995): 880. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40151830.

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Aqeeli, Ammar A. "Tim O’Brien’s representation of the subjugated other’s voice against war in The Things They Carried." Ars Aeterna 12, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 20–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aa-2020-0008.

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Abstract Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam-based The Things They Carried has been criticized for exclusively depicting the painful and traumatic experiences of the American soldiers in the war zone. Despite the limited number of Vietnamese characters in the novel, and despite their relegation to the role of powerless and voiceless onlookers, their presence shows the degree of the power imbalance between Vietnam and America. This article demonstrates how O’Brien infused sentiments in his stories to emphasize his opposition to the war and his concern for the dignity of the Vietnamese people. O’Brien asserts that the main purpose of the United States’s invasion was to make Vietnam a learnable and controllable place. Through his critique of the United States’s imperial ambitions in Vietnam, O’Brien provides a representative voice for the people of Vietnam to share their sufferings from an unjust war.

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Tran, Ben. "Ferdinand Oyono in Vietnamese: Translation after Socialism and Colonialism." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 128, no. 1 (January 2013): 163–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2013.128.1.163.

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Of the fourteen translations of Ferdinand Oyono's une vie de boy published to date, the Vietnamese translation, Đới Làm bồi, dates last, despite Vietnam and Cameroon's shared past under French colonialism. Nguyễn Như đat, the novel's Vietnamese translator, had anticipated that his version, published in 1997, would not find much of a market. The translator's pessimism was warranted, since the Vietnam of the late 1990s drastically differed from the two Vietnams of 1956, when Oyono's novel was originally published. Partitioned after the 1954 Geneva Accords and fighting against each other in the Second Indochina War, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the north and the Republic of Vietnam in the south were unified at the war's end, in 1975, under a socialist government. But since 1986 Vietnam has been engaged in the capitalist world market, albeit under the banner of socialism. Given this context of market socialism, the Vietnamese translation of Oyono's anticolonial novel seems to have lagged temporally: it was published at a time when literary translations in Vietnam began trending away from anticolonialism and toward, for example, Raymond Carver's minimalism, Haruki Murakami's surreal handling of alienation, and, more recently, Vladimir Nabokov's perversely defamiliarizing style.

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Loving, Jerome. "Whitman Incountry: Our Civil War in Vietnam." South Central Review 4, no. 1 (1987): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3189598.

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Poljak Rehlicki, Jasna. "Us vs. Them: Cultural Encounters in Warzones through Reading American War Literature." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 12, no. 1 (June 22, 2015): 91–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.12.1.91-103.

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In 1996, Samuel Huntington argued that the end of the Cold War Era marked the end of global instability based on ideological and economic differences and preferences. However, he did not predict any kind of a peaceful future for humankind but maintained that future conflicts will arise from cultural differences. The clashes are inevitable, he claims, as long as one side (usually the West) insists on imposing universalism to other civilizations whose cultural awareness is on the rise. Ever since the Vietnam War, American military tacticians have believed that the knowledge and understanding of the enemy’s culture will lead to victory, and American military academies and schools are dedicating more attention to cultural studies within their general strategy. This paper is based on the reading and analysis of several American fiction and non-fiction novels from the Vietnam and the Iraq Wars. Since all of these works are first-hand accounts of war experience and soldiers’ cultural encounters with their ‘adversaries’, the research is focused on the (im)possibility of soldiers’ true understanding and appreciation of different cultures/civilizations during wartime. It also suggests that knowing the enemy is to no avail if wars are fought with the goal of Westernizing other cultures.

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Johannessen, Larry R. "Making History Come Alive with the Nonfiction Literature of the Vietnam War." Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas 76, no. 3 (January 2003): 120–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00098650309601986.

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Johannessen, Larry R. "Making History Come Alive with the Nonfiction Literature of the Vietnam War." Social Studies 94, no. 4 (July 2003): 171–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00377990309600202.

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Carafano, James Jay. "West Point at War: Officer Attitudes and the Vietnam War 1966-72." Journal of Popular Culture 21, no. 4 (March 1988): 25–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1988.00025.x.

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Skinner, Rasjid, and Paul M. Kaplick. "Cultural shift in mental illness: a comparison of stress responses in World War I and the Vietnam War." JRSM Open 8, no. 12 (December 2017): 205427041774606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2054270417746061.

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Objectives Post-traumatic stress disorder is an established diagnostic category. In particular, over the past 20 years, there has been an interest in culture as a fundamental factor in post-traumatic stress disorder symptom manifestation. However, only a very limited portion of this literature studies the historical variability of post-traumatic stress within a particular culture. Design Therefore, this study examines whether stress responses to violence associated with armed conflicts have been a culturally stable reaction in Western troops. Setting We have compared historical records from World War I to those of the Vietnam War. Reference is also made to observations of combat trauma reactions in pre-World War I conflicts, World War II, the Korean War, the Falklands War, and the First Gulf War. Participants The data set consisted of literature that was published during and after these armed conflicts. Main outcome measures Accounts of World War I Shell Shock that describe symptom presentation, incidence (both acute and delayed), and prognosis were compared to the observations made of Vietnam War post-traumatic stress disorder victims. Results Results suggest that the conditions observed in Vietnam veterans were not the same as those which were observed in World War I trauma victims. Conclusions The paper argues that the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder cannot be stretched to cover the typical battle trauma reactions of World War I. It is suggested that relatively subtle changes in culture, over little more than a generation, have had a profound effect on how mental illness forms, manifests itself, and is effectively treated. We add new evidence to the argument that post-traumatic stress disorder in its current conceptualisation does not adequately account, not only for ethnocultural variation but also for historical variation in stress responses within the same culture.

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Gelfant, Blanche H. "Beauty and Nightmare in Vietnam War Fiction." Prospects 30 (October 2005): 751–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300002258.

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“Hue is the most beautiful city in the world,” a Vietnamese woman tells Marine Lieutenant Kramer, a central character in Robert Roth's Vietnam War novel,Sand in the Wind. Published in 1973, five years after the sweeping Tet Offensive had reduced Hue to rubble,Sand in the Windset the city within a complex meditation upon beauty and its relation to human desire, history, the vagaries of chance, ephemerality of happiness, and ineluctability of loss. Though ambitious in intent,Sand in the Windhas not been widely acclaimed. Except for John Hellmann's close reading, it has usually been referred to passingly or overlooked. Thomas Myers dismissed it as a “sterile mural,” a static work fixed upon a wall. I prefer to think of it as “walking point” — an action Myers ascribed to Vietnam War fiction he endorsed for “cutting trails” (227). Like the pointman of a patrol who clears a path for others to follow, the Vietnam War novel, Myers argued, opened a way into tangled historic territory — the territory of war now inhabited by literature. I propose to enter this forbidding area throughSand in the Wind, for I believe that like the novels Myers lauded it too secures a way, a unique way, of engaging safely with the Vietnam War and the losses it entailed.The lives of an estimated 5,713 soldiers, American and Vietnamese, were lost in the battle at Hue, as were almost 3,000 civilian lives. That the “longest and bloodiest” battle of the Offensive took place in Hue during the festive days of Tet was particularly shocking, for Hue was commonly considered an open city, and Tet, the lunar New Year, a time of peace and renewal. Traditionally, Tet Nguyen Dan ushered in the new year with three days of festivity, days of respite during which communal bonds were strengthened. Family members and their relatives renewed the bond of blood by gathering together for an exchange of gifts and good wishes; ancestral bonds were renewed by visits to family graves. Rice farmers plowing their paddies renewed the bond between man and nature.

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Chong, Sylvia Shin Huey. "Vietnam, the Movie: Part Deux." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 133, no. 2 (March 2018): 371–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2018.133.2.371.

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“They cannot represent themselves; they must be represented” (nguyen, sympathizer 179). and so viet thanh nguyen's The Sympathizer invokes Karl Marx's “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” although the reference is just as likely to be Edward Said's Orientalism, since Marx was concerned with political representation (608), whereas Said was concerned with discursive representation (21). These words frame the important middle act of The Sympathizer, one that focuses on the filming of The Hamlet, a mash-up of Hollywood's sins against not only Vietnamese but also Asians and Asian Americans at large. Reading like a morality play crossed with a backstage musical, this section draws on thinly veiled references to Francis Ford Coppola (the Auteur), Marlon Brando (the hespian), and Martin Sheen (the Idol), who drag the narrator from his newly formed Southern Californian refuge and round up a bunch of stray boat people milling around in the Philippines to put on a movie about the Vietnam War. From the recycling of American military equipment originally sold to Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines to the reuse of Vietnamese bodies recently shot at and now en route to the United States as refugees, every aspect of the making of The Hamlet illustrates the dangers of allowing oneself to be represented by others. More subtly, The Sympathizer shows how difficult it is to intervene in this regime of representation, especially in the name of authenticity, as it is often deployed by protestors against stereotypes in the media. But if we situate the section on The Hamlet within the overall narrative of The Sympathizer and also in Nguyen's larger critique of memory industries as war industries, we must also understand that the content of the ilm is less important than the dynamics of spectatorship. By linking the narrator's quixotic quest to subvert this film with his repression of his complicity in the rape and torture of a communist agent during the narrator's days as a mole in the South Vietnamese police, Nguyen suggests that watching the Vietnam War is potentially as dangerous as ighting in (or misrepresenting) the war.

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Barden, Thomas E., and John Provo. "Legends of the American Soldiers in the Vietnam War." Fabula 36, no. 3-4 (January 1995): 217–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fabl.1995.36.3-4.217.

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Johnson, Robert David. "Congress and the Cold War." Journal of Cold War Studies 3, no. 2 (May 2001): 76–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/152039701300373899.

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Congress has received insufficient attention from scholars of Cold War foreign policy for a number of reasons, including historiographical patterns and the scattered nature of congressional sources. This gap in the literature has skewed our understanding of the Cold War because it has failed to take into account the numerous ways in which the legislature affected U.S. foreign policy after World War II. This article looks at Cold War congressional policy within a broad historical perspective, and it analyzes how the flurry of congressional activity in the years following the Vietnam War was part of a larger trend of congressional activism in foreign policy. After reviewing the existing literature on the subject of Congress and the Cold War, the article points out various directions for future research.

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Martin, Andrew, Philip D. Beidler, Owen W. Gilman, Lorrie Smith, and Philip K. Jason. "America Lost and Found: Recent Writing on the Vietnam War." Contemporary Literature 34, no. 1 (1993): 139. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1208506.

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Journal articles on the topic 'Vietnam War Literature'

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