Soldier Talk is a collection of essays about the Vietnam combat
veteran and his representation of his experience. The Vietnam War
created a vast archive of recorded accounts of the war, permitting
an unprecedented opportunity to confront its brutal secrets. This
book is about how to read and how to hear the historical,
psychological, and narrative truths of soldiers talk. The ten
chapters explore the phenomenon of soldier talk; the oral narrative
form of so much of the Vietnam War literature; the collection of
veteran interviews published under the title Nam; Vietnam War
poetry; the strange tale of Bobby Garwood, the private who
disappeared 10 days before he was to return home and surfaced 13
years later in Hanoi; Vietnam oral history and revolutionary
socialism; the historiography of the Vietnam War; "queering
Vietnam"; the African American experience of Vietnam; and women and
the war. Along the way the authors touch on most of the best-known
and most important writing to come out of the war."
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