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9780822307495

Reading the Wind

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822307495

  • ISBN10:

    0822307499

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1987-01-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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Summary

The decade following the American defeat in Vietnam has been filled with doubts about American politics and values, confusion over the lessons of the war, and anger about the physical and psychological suffering that occurred during the war as well as thereafter. In the years since the U.S. withdrawal, our need to make sense of Vietnam has prompted an outpouring of thinking and writing, from scholarly reappraisals of American foreign policy to highly personal accounts of participants. On the tenth anniversary of the final U. S. withdrawal, the Asia Society sponsored a conference on the Vietnam experience in American literature at which leading writers, critics, publishers, commentators, and academics wrestled with this phenomenon. Drawing on the synergy of this conference, Timothy J. Lomperis has produced an original work that focuses on the growing body of literatureincluding novels, personal accounts, and oral historieswhich describes the experiences of American soldiers in Vietnam as well as the experience of veterans upon their return home.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Interpretative Critique: "Reading the Wind"
Introduction: The Shoals of Yin and Yang
The Keynote: "Artistic Resolution, Societal Resolution"
The High Tide of Passion: The Impact of the Literature
Essay: The Crybaby Veterans
Down the Slippery Slope: Tensions Between Fact and Fiction
Essay: What Are the Facts?
The Great Lost Fact: The Asians
Essay: Reading the Asian Wind
Truth—Whither Goest Thou? The Role of Literature in Understanding the War
Essay: The Iliad and the Kieu: Building Understanding
Conclusion: America's Future in Asia (and at Home)
Bibliographic Commentary: "From the Fiction, Some Truths"
Author/Title List for the Bibliographic Commentary
Bibliography of the Interpretative Critique
List of Named Participants
Conference Program
Index
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