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Walking Point - American Narratives of Vietnam (Hardcover)
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Walking Point - American Narratives of Vietnam (Hardcover)
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Arguing that the unprecedented nature of our first postmodernist
war demanded either the revision of traditional modes of war
writing or the discovery of new styles that would render the
emotional and psychological center of a new national trauma, this
study assesses the most important novels and personal memoirs
written by Americans about the Vietnam War. Myers examines the work
of Tim O'Brien, David Halberstam, Ward Just, Stephen Wright, John
Del Vecchio, and others working in the modes of realism, the
classical memoir, black humor, revised romanticism, and mnemonic
narrative. Drawing on the work of thinkers such as Hayden White,
Fredric Jameson, and Michel Foucault--whose understanding of the
written text as a battleground of competing historical voices
expands any definition of historical text--Myers defines the
historical novel as a text that self-consciously and imaginatively
shapes lived experience into a readable aesthetic form.
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