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The Viet Nam War/the American War : Images and Representations in Euro-American and Vietnamese Exile Narratives
author
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Christopher, Renny.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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1558490086
print isbn13
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9781558490086
ebook isbn13
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9780585253558
language
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English
subject
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Literature and the conflict, American literature--20th century--History and criticism, Vietnamese Americans--Biography--History and criticism, Vietnamese literature--20th century--History and criticism, Exiles--Vietnam--Bio
publication date
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1995
lcc
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PS228.V5C47 1995eb
ddc
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813/.5409358
subject
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Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Literature and the conflict, American literature--20th century--History and criticism, Vietnamese Americans--Biography--History and criticism, Vietnamese literature--20th century--History and criticism, Exiles--Vietnam--Bio
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The Vietnam War/The American War
Images and Representations in Euro-American and Vietnamese Exile Narratives
Renny Christopher
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Copyright 1995 by Renny Christopher All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 95-19687 ISBN 1-55849-008-6 (cloth); 009-4 (pbk.) Designed by Milenda Nanok Lee Set in Monotype Bembo by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Braun-Brumfield, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Christopher Renny. The Viet Nam War/the American war: images and representations in Euro-American and Vietnamese exile narratives / Renny Christopher. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55849-008-6 (alk. paper). - ISBN I-55849-009-4 (pbk.: alk. paper) I. Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975Literature and the conflict. 2. American literature20th centuryHistory and criticism. 3. Vietnamese AmericansBiographyHistory and criticism. 4. Vietnamese literature20th centuryHistory and criticsm. 5. VietnamExilesBiographyHistory and criticism. 6. Literature. ComparativeAmerican and Vietnamese. 7. Literature. ComparativeVietnamese and American. 8. Soldiers' writings, AmericanHistory and criticism. 9. War stories, AmericanHistory and criticism. 10. VietnamIn literature. 11. Narration (Rhetoric) I. Title. PS228.V5C47 1995 813'.5409358dc20 95-19687 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
This book is published with the support and cooperation of the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Acknowledgments for permission to reprint selections from previously published material appear on the last printed page of this book.
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The United States... desires only that these peoples should be left in peace to work out their own destinies in their own way... Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, U.S. Congress
(Nothing is more important than independence and freedom.) H Ch* Minh
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Contents
Preface
ix
One Introduction
1
Two Vietnamese Exile Narratives
25
Three U.S. Wars in Asia and the Representation of Asians
111
Four Euro-American Representations of the Vietnamese
165
Same Old, Same Old
168
Trying, but Failing, to Break the Mold
217
Subtracting the Fear from the Landscape
246
Five Conclusion: Ban* tri m
297
Notes
311
Works Cited
327
Index
339
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Preface
I came to write this book because I experienced a complete turnaround in my perceptions of what I, like most Americans, used to call "Vietnam," and what I now call "the American war in Viet Nam." That transformation came about largely through my reading of noncanonical works concerning that war. My aim in this book is to work toward bringing my readers around to the same transformation, but the only way to experience that transformation completely is to read the primary sources I discuss in chapter 2 and in the third section of chapter 4.
My first knowledge of the war came during my earliest childhood in rural California, from watching the news on television. The war lasted for my entire youth; it was always there, small, on the television screen. The chronology of the war lies like an overlay in my mind on the chronology of my childhood. I was born in 1957-the year after the elections failed to take place that were supposed to unify North and South Viet Nam according to the Geneva accords. There were already American "advisors" in the country, and it had started to become a regular feature in the news. I was six when Diem and Kennedy were assassinated. I do not remember Diem; I remember not Kennedy's death, but his funeral: the black horse with the empty boots backwards in the stirrups. I was in second grade when the infamous Tonkin Gulf incident took place. I have a vague memory of Johnson's voice droning, and Johnson looking very earnest, and my mother disapproving of everything he did.
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