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How to Revise a True War Story - Tim O'Brien's Process of Textual Production (Paperback)
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How to Revise a True War Story - Tim O'Brien's Process of Textual Production (Paperback)
Series: The New American Canon: The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture
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"You can tell a true war story if you just keep on telling it," Tim
O'Brien writes in The Things They Carried. Widely regarded as the
most important novelist to come out of the American war in Viet
Nam, O'Brien has kept on telling true war stories not only in
narratives that cycle through multiple fictional and nonfictional
versions of the war's defining experiences, but also by rewriting
those stories again and again. Key moments of revision extend from
early drafts, to the initial appearance of selected chapters in
magazines, across typescripts and page proofs for first editions,
and through continuing post-publication variants in reprints. How
to Revise a True War Story is the first book-length study of
O'Brien's archival papers at the University of Texas's Harry Ransom
Center. Drawing on extensive study of drafts and other
prepublication materials, as well as the multiple published
versions of O'Brien's works, John K. Young tells the untold stories
behind the production of such key texts as Going After Cacciato,
The Things They Carried, and In the Lake of the Woods. By reading
not just the texts that have been published, but also the versions
they could have been, Young demonstrates the important choices
O'Brien and his editors have made about how to represent the
traumas of the war in Viet Nam. The result is a series of texts
that refuse to settle into a finished or stable form, just as the
stories they present insist on being told and retold in new and
changing ways. In their lack of textual stability, these variants
across different versions enact for O'Brien's readers the kinds of
narrative volatility that is key to the American literature
emerging from the war in Viet Nam. Perhaps in this case, you can
tell a true war story if you just keep on revising it.
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