This book provides a critical survey of the literature on the Vietnam War and is intended both for academic and general readers. Earlier works of this kind constantly recycled criticism of a half-dozen of the same works. In this study, the aim was to discuss a much greater number of works, including a few that have never been discussed. To appeal to non-academic readers, Lit-Crit jargon was kept to a minimum, and parallels with earlier works of war literature, especially those of the two world wars, were established.
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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Partisans
- Chapter One Early Adventurers
- Chapter Two Fictional History & Historical Fiction: The Fall of Diem
- Chapter Three Advisors & Friendlies: Pro-War Novels
- Chapter Four Advisors & Friendlies II: Ambivalent Warriors
- Chapter Five Soldiers & Civilians
- Part II Modes and Genres
- Chapter Six Combat Memoirs
- Chapter Seven Allegory
- Chapter Eight Combat Realism
- Chapter Nine Combat VS. Ideology
- Chapter Ten Deviations
- Chapter Eleven Inventions: Fantasy & Metafiction
- Chapter Twelve Correspondents
- Chapter Thirteen Ordinary People: Oral Memoirs
- Chapter Fourteen Vets: The Return of the Repressed
- Bibliography