Fourteen landing zones : approaches to Vietnam War literature / edited by Philip K. Jason.

Other author Jason, Philip K., 1941-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoIowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1991.
Descriptionxix, 250 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents A different world : the vietnam veteran novel come home / Maria S. Bonn -- "She's a pretty woman ... for a Gook" : the misogyny of the Vietnam War / Jacqueline E. Lawson -- "Humping the boonies" : sex, combat, and the female in Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country / Katherine Kinney -- Resistance and revision in poetry by Vietnam War veterans / Lorrie Smith -- Doing it wrong is getting it right : America's Vietnam War drama / Don Rignalda -- Yosarian's legacy : Catch-22 and the Vietnam War / John Clark Pratt -- Conradian darkness in John Clark Pratt's The Laotian fragments / James R. Aubrey -- Vietnam and John Winthrop's vision of community / Owen W. Gilman -- The (Hidden) antiwar activist in Vietnam War fiction / Jacqueline R. Smetak -- Realism, verisimilitude, and the depiction of Vietnam veterans in In country / Matthew C. Stewart
Contents -- "A hard story to tell" : the Vietnam War in Joan Didion's Democray / Stuart Ching -- Darkness in the East : the Vietnam novels of Takeshi Kaiko / Mark A. Heberle -- Line of departure : the Atrocity in Vietnam War literature / Corneluis A. Cronin -- Speaking the language of pain : Vietnam War literature in the context of a literature of trauma.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Other title14 landing zones.
LCCN 90046585
ISBN0877453144 (alk. paper)
ISBN0877453152 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS228.V5 F68 1991 ✔ Available Place Hold