Friendly Fire : American Images of the Vietnam War: American Images of the Vietnam WarOxford University Press, USA, 2000 M10 9 - 240 páginas Hundreds of memoirs, novels, plays, and movies have been devoted to the American war in Vietnam. In spite of the great variety of mediums, political perspectives and the degrees of seriousness with which the war has been treated, Katherine Kinney argues that the vast majority of these works share a single story: that of Americans killing Americans in Vietnam. Friendly Fire, in this instance, refers not merely to a tragic error of war, it also refers to America's war with itself during the Vietnam years. Starting from this point, this book considers the concept of "friendly fire" from multiple vantage points, and portrays the Vietnam age as a crucible where America's cohesive image of itself is shattered--pitting soldiers against superiors, doves against hawks, feminism against patriarchy, racial fear against racial tolerance. Through the use of extensive evidence from the film and popular fiction of Vietnam (i.e. Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July, Didion's Democracy, O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, Rabe's Sticks and Bones and Streamers), Kinney draws a powerful picture of a nation politically, culturally, and socially divided, and a war that has been memorialized as a contested site of art, media, politics, and ideology. |
Contenido
Introduction | 3 |
2 | 28 |
IMPERIAL ALLEGORIES | 43 |
BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE | 81 |
GRUNTS | 95 |
HUMPING THE BOONIES | 143 |
Conclusion | 187 |
| 215 | |
Términos y frases comunes
American history Ardell argues army becomes Billy Black Power black soldiers body brother Carlyle Cold War Cowboy cultural desire Didion Dispatches embodied enacted father fiction figure film fragging friendly fire fucking gender Gerheim gesture girl Going After Cacciato Hayslip Heinemann Hendrix Herr's humping the boonies identity ideological Inez innocence Iwo Jima Jeffords John Wayne John Wayne's Joker killing Kovic language literally Mailer male Marine marks Mary Ann masculinity memory metaphor Michael Herr myth narrative narrator Negro novel obscenity Pacific Paco Paco's Story Paul Berlin Pavlo Platoon play political postmodern present race racial radical rape reality references are cited Richard Slotkin Richie Roger role Ron Kovic Saigon Sam's Sands of Iwo SAVAK sexual Slotkin structure tells tion trope of friendly Tucept University Press vernacular veteran Viet Cong Vietnam Vietnam War Vietnamese violence war's woman women World World War II York
Referencias a este libro
A Clash of Cultures: Civil-Military Relations During the Vietnam War Orrin Schwab Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
Dancing on the White Page: Black Women Entertainers Writing Autobiography Kwakiutl L. Dreher Vista previa limitada - 2008 |