VICTIMHOOD IN AMERICAN NARRATIVES OF THE WAR IN VIETNAM [electronic resource].

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1000054225 (electronic bk.)
9781000054224 (electronic bk.)
9781000054286 (ePub ebook)
1000054284
9781003005896 (electronic bk.)
1003005896 (electronic bk.)
9781000054255 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket)
100005425X (electronic bk. : Mobipocket)
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This book revisits the American canon of novels, memoirs, and films about the war in Vietnam, in order to reassess critically the centrality of the discourse of American victimization in the country's imagination of the conflict, and to trace the strategies of representation that establish American soldiers and veterans as the most significant victims of the war. By investigating in detail the imagery of the Vietnamese landscape recreated by American authors and directors, the volume explores the proposition that Vietnam has been turned into an American myth, demonstrating that the process resulted in a dehistoricization and mystification of the conflict that obscured its historical and political realities. Against this background, representations of the war's victims--Vietnamese civilians and American soldiers--are then considered in light of their ideological meanings and uses. Ultimately, the book seeks to demonstrate how, in a relation of power, the question of victimhood can become ideologized, transforming into both a discourse and a strategy of representation--and in doing so, to demythologize something of the "Vietnam" of American cultural narrative.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 __ Literature and the war.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 __ Motion pictures and the war.
Veterans in literature.
Veterans in motion pictures.
Victims in literature.
Victims in motion pictures.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General __ bisacsh
HISTORY / Military / Vietnam War __ bisacsh
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