Walking Point : American Narratives of Vietnam Hardback
by Thomas (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Purdue University) Myers
Hardback
Description
This study is a qualitative assessment within a group of five modes - realism, the classical memoir, black humour, revised romanticism, and mnemonic narrative - of the most important novels and memoirs written by Americans about Vietnam.
Among numerous works discussed are Philip Caputo's A Rumor of War, John Delvecchio's The 13th Valley, David Halberstam's One Very Hot Day, Michael Herr's Dispatches, and Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:266 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:13/10/1988
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- ISBN:9780195053517
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:266 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:13/10/1988
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195053517