Vietnam War

Tracing a Thread of Orientalism through Colonialism & Beyond: Presentations of Vietnamese Nationalism by and for Americans

by Nolan Bensen

This paper traces the outlandish and essentializing claims of Neil Jamieson in Understanding Vietnam through his... more This paper traces the outlandish and essentializing claims of Neil Jamieson in Understanding Vietnam through his sources to the orientalist, adventurer, and son of a French colonial administrator in Vietnam, Paul Mus. It attempts to show that Mus' work was orientalist and that some major works citing him have been encouraged by his work to take that tack.

Ignore the last two pages. They were a minor assignment we had to turn in at the same time.

‘The National Service Scheme: Citizenship, Masculinity and the tradition of compulsory military service in 1960s Australia’

by Christina Twomey

Australian Journal of Politics and History, 58:1, March 2012, 67-81.

Between 1964 and 1972, the National Service Act 1964 required Australian men turning twenty years old to register for... more Between 1964 and 1972, the National Service Act 1964 required Australian men turning twenty years old to register for national service. Unlike most scholarship on the national service scheme, which focuses on opposition to the scheme and its unpopularity, this article examines the reasons why most Australians supported the reintroduction of national service and why so many young men complied with its provisions. It argues that compulsory military service was seen as essential in the context of the Cold War, and as a way of ensuring that young men now coming of age were inducted into models of masculinity, citizenship and duty considered essential for a cohesive society. It was the scheme's break with accepted traditions of compulsory military service in Australia that is an overlooked, and important, element of the criticism it generated. In that sense, it was the legacy of earlier wars that fed into the contemporary response to national service.

Napalm en América. Intentando narrar América tras Vietnam

by Marc Delcan Albors

Versión corta para la conferencia del Encuentro Telecápita. Arte, Pensamiento y Nuevos Relatos Octubre 2011, Unam, México DF

El presente trabajo intenta analizar las variaciones en el canon literario estadounidense tras la experiencia bélica... more El presente trabajo intenta analizar las variaciones en el canon literario estadounidense tras la experiencia bélica de Vietnam. El punto de arranque son las llamadas nuevas representaciones de la literatura posmoderna, especialmente las vinculadas al nuevo periodismo de Norman Mailer o Michael Herr, así como la traducción en las obras de ficción representada por Robert Stone. Todos los autores, y algunas de sus obras se enmarcan en lo que Frederic Jameson llamó la narracón del primer conflicto posmoderno. Al mismo tiempo son parte de las representaciones culturales que se nos han legado de la guerra en Vietnam. Mucho después de la experiencia, la memoria y la historia pública son las que nos explican y representan que fue Vietnam para los estadounidenses. La cantidad de productos culturales en torno a este tema lo han convertido en uno de los referentes básicos de la cultura de los Estados Unidos. Desde mi punto de vista, hubo una reconstitución de Vietnam como fenómeno histórico que tiene que ver -en lo político- con la emergencia del capitalismo tardío; y en lo socio-cultural, con la re-emergencia del sujeto y el paradigma posmoderno. Las bases que sientan las formas de representación cultural de esta guerra son la velocidad, la tecnología, la locura, la individualidad y el enfrentamiento al otro sin un metadiscurso ideológico como capa de protección. Me aproximo al mismo tiempo al papel higienizador de la “locura” de Vietnam para la digestión moral americana del desastre. Así como al concepto de Simulacro usado por Baudrillard para ver como estos productos culturales han servido de base para nuevas concepciones simbólicas a través de las pantallas que no refieren ya a la experiencia sino a otros artefactos culturales; convirtiéndose en hiper-representaciones que pierden su contacto con la realidad porque ya no les es necesario para significarse ni para ser estéticamente realistas. El ejemplo de esto último lo analizo en películas como Jarhead.

Reader’s Response –“The Things They Carried”

by DARLA JORDAN MILLER

ENGL. Dr. B. Moore; A reader's response pertaining to the short story "The Things They Carried" by author Tim O'Brien. The story remembers the Vietnam War and the symbolism of the word "burden".

Milton Friedman: Grand héraut de l'"orthodoxie" néo-libérale

by Lucas Bouchard

Vietnam Analogies and Metaphors: The Cultural Codification of South Africa's Border War

by Gary Baines

Published in Safundi: The journal of South African and American Studies, Vol. 13, Nos. 1-2, 2012

The Road to Paris in Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato

by Nanette Norris

Forthcoming in Paris in American Literature: On Distance as Literary Resource, ed. Jeffrey Herlihy-Mehra and Vamsi ___ (Farleigh
Dickinson UP, 2012).

The domestic vision of Vietnam Home Movies

by Guy Westwell

Published in Image as Witness – Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture (Wallflower Press, 2007), pp.143-159.

"Resisting Remasculinization: Tim O'Brien's 'Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong.'"

by Chris Vanderwees

Vanderwees, Chris. "Resisting Remasculinization: Tim O'Brien's 'Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong.'" Feminist Studies in English Literature. 17.2 (2009): 191-210.

Determinants and Consequences of Service in the Armed Forces During the Vietnam Era

by Patricia Shields

Ohio Sate University, Dissertation 1977

“Does anybody see what I see?!” 1776 and Hair re-examine the American dream

by Laura MacDonald

The burden of the draft: The vietnam years

by Patricia Shields

Published in the Journal of Political and Military Sociology 1981 Vol. 9 Fall pp. 215-228.

This study explores the draft during the Vietnam era. Using a national longitudinal sample of young men who were draft... more This study explores the draft during the Vietnam era. Using a national longitudinal sample of young men who were draft vulnerable over the period, it estimates the likelihood of being drafted for whites and blacks. Unlike other studies, it uses pre-service traits in the analysis.
The burden of the draft did not fall evenly upon young men of the period. Individuals who unfortunately possessed combinations of draft vulnerable personal characteristics-for example, black high school graduates-paid a higher than average price. The strength of the draft pressure variable, however, demonstrates the overriding importance of military demand. Men who were draft eligible during periods of high draft calls were least able to use the many deferment avenues. Hence, the fortunes of war or the luck of the draw was an important factor in determining who was drafted.

Teaching The Things They Carried and Duong Thu Huong’s Novel Without a Name

by Derek C. Maus

In _Approaches to Teaching Tim O’Brien_, edited by Alex Vernon and Catherine Calloway. New York:  Modern Language Association, December 2010.

Kneeling before the fathers' wand: Violence, eroticism and paternalism in Thomas Pynchon's V. and JM Coetzee's Dusklands

by Derek C. Maus

Journal of Literary Studies, vol. 15, nos. 1-2 (June 1999), 195-217.

Peaceful Protest to Violent Revolution: The Evolution of SDS and the Weathermen

by Scott Midgley

Dominance and Submission in Postmodern War Imagery

by Myra Mendible

Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 17 (2005): 55-
63

The US Central Intelligence Agency and the Brao: The Story of Kong My, a Non-Communist Space in Attapeu Province, Southern Laos

by Ian Baird

Ian G. Baird
Aséanie 25 (2010): 23-51.

Feminist Criticism and the Literature of the Vietnam Combat Veteran

by Kali Tal

Feminist Criticism and the Literature of the Vietnam Combat Veteran
TITLE: Vietnam Generation Journal Vol. 1, No. 3-4
CREATOR: Tal, Kali
JOURNAL: Vietnam Generation Journal
ISSUE: Gender and the War: Men, Women and Vietnam
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Chevy Chase (Md.)
PUBLISHER: Vietnam Generation, Inc. Burning Cities Press
CREATION DATE: 1989
RELATED ITEMS: Vietnam Generation Journal Vol. 1, No. 3 and 4
LC CALL #: DS556 V54 v1n3

An exploration of the connections between literature by Vietnam combat veterans and feminist theory. Early version of... more An exploration of the connections between literature by Vietnam combat veterans and feminist theory. Early version of the ideas later expanded into a theory of the "literature of trauma" in Tal's Worlds of Hurt (Cambridge U Press, 1995).

The Self-Reflexive War: War Looking at Film Looking at War

by Kali Tal

Paper presented at the Thirteenth Annual Conference on Literature and Film, December 1987, Tampa, FL, and later published in revised form in Jump/Cut 36, Spring 1991.

An exploration of the influence of popular culture imagery on the decisions of American soldiers to go to war in... more An exploration of the influence of popular culture imagery on the decisions of American soldiers to go to war in Vietnam, its effect on their experience of war, and on the narratives produced about the war in its aftermath.

The Mind at War: Images of Women in Vietnam Novels by Combat Veterans

by Kali Tal

Published in Contemporary Literature (Fall 1989).

A review of Vietnam combat literature, with a focus on representations of women. Texts covered include Tim O'Brien's... more A review of Vietnam combat literature, with a focus on representations of women. Texts covered include Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, William Eastlake's The Bamboo Bed, William Huggett's Body Count, James Webb's Fields of Fire, Larry Heinemann's Close Quarters, Donald McQuinn's Targets, Ken Miller's Tiger the Lurp Dog, John DelVecchio's The Thirteenth Valley, and Winston Groom's Better Times Than These.