Memories of War: Trauma and Silence in the Narratives of Black
Vietnam Veterans is an interdisciplinary examination of how the
trauma of the Vietnam War affected Black Vietnam Veterans and
manifested itself into a profound silence and how that silence
affected the telling of their stories and experiences of the war.
Narratives of Black Vietnam Veterans and oral histories are
examined to demonstrate how the trauma of war have altered or
misconstrued their narratives and how their participation in the
Vietnam War has been discredited and how this has led to their
silence, invisibility, and misrepresentation in both Vietnam War
and American literature. Within their narratives, they continuously
grapple with their two-ness, the double consciousness of fighting
for a country that deprived them of their inalienable rights as
human beings--of being both a Black soldier in the first war with
integrated troops and being treated as second class citizens when
they returned home. Memories of War brings to the forefront of the
American literary landscape the voices and memories of those Black
Vietnam Veterans who have so often been forgotten.
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