Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language
and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of
Flensburg (Englisches Institut), course: American Crime Fiction,
language: English, abstract: In this term paper Im going to deal
with the traumatic experiences of the New Orleans Police Department
(NOPD) homicide detective Dave Robicheaux in the Vietnam War in
1965 and their literary function by examining the essential parts
of the two books "Neon Rain" and "The Tin Roof Blowdown."
Furthermore I will try to find out how the description of Daves
experiences and his character correlate with the biography and the
character of the author. For the extensive understanding of James
Lee Burke I will work out a brief excursus which deals with the
special features that are immanent in the southern writer due to
the history of the region and the mentality of its inhabitants. I
hope that my essay will shed more light on the reasons why Burke
uses the image of the Vietnam War so many times in his novels and
give clues about his opinion about the engagement of the USA in
Southeast Asia. The current state of source material is quite good
as Burke is a well-known author and has led many interviews. He
also runs a very informative website with lots of links to
interviews which I used extensively. My main sources were of course
his two books, an instructive biography written by Barbara Bogue
and an interesting book about the unique features of the American
south.
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