Analysis and Criticism:
Cultural Representations of the Vietnam War (Page 2)
You can discuss the merits (or lack of merits) of the books on this page by visiting our discussion forum. You can also suggest titles for this category. Posting in the forum does require registration.
| Jeffords, Susan. The Remasculinization of America: Gender and the Vietnam War. Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press, 1989. | |
| Lomperis, Timothy J. Reading the Wind : The Literature of the Vietnam War. With bibliographic commentary by John Clark Pratt. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987. | |
| Louvre, Alf and J. Walsh, eds. Tell Me Lies About Vietnam: Cultural Battles for the Meaning of the War. Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1988. | |
| Martin, Andrew. Receptions of War : Vietnam in American Culture. Oklahoma project for discourse and theory, v. 10. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. | |
| Searle, William J. ed. Search and Clear : Critical Responses to Selected Literature and Films of the Vietnam War. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988. | |
| Shafer, D. Michael, ed. The Legacy : The Vietnam War in the
American Imagination. Boston: Beacon Press, 1990. An excellent collection of 14 articles bearing on various aspects of the cultural representations and differing socially created realities in the US concerning the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Topics include the recreation of the war in the arts, the impact of the draft and the treatment of veterans and their narratives, and the contested nature of the discourse over the meaning and definition of the war. |
