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Walking Point: American Narratives of Vietnam Book

Walking Point : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780195053517 : 0195053516 : 13 Oct 1988 : 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...Read More

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  • Product Description

    How Americans have collectively recorded their wars within the imagination has always been a process of supreme cultural significane, and the war novel has been an aesthetic exploration of larger elements of national purpose, virtue, and self image as much as it has been a faithful rendering of any single historical moment.

  • 0195053516
  • 9780195053517
  • Thomas Myers
  • 13 October 1988
  • OUP USA
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 272
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