Title The other side of grief : the home front and the aftermath in American narratives of the Vietnam War / Maureen Ryan

Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 340 pages) Series Culture, politics, and the cold war Culture, politics, and the Cold War. Contents Introduction. The Vietnam War and modern memory -- MIA in America: Vietnam aftermath narratives -- The other side of grief : American women writers and the Vietnam War -- Years of darkness : narratives by and about American prisoners of the Vietnam War -- The fugitive's hour : the counterculture and the Vietnam antiwar movement in American fiction -- Something strange and extravagant : personal histories by Vietnam antiwar movement activists -- People singing a sad song : Vietnamese exiles in American literature -- Conclusion. We were all there Summary While the best known personal accounts of the Vietnam War tend to center on the experience of combat, Maureen Ryan's The Other Side of Grief examines the often overlooked narratives - novels, short stories, memoirs, and films - that document the war's impact on the home front. In analyzing the accounts of Vietnam veterans, women as well as men, Ryan focuses on the process of readjustment, on how the war continued to insinuate itself into their lives, their families, and their communities long after they returned home. She looks at the writings of women whose husbands, lovers, brothers, and sons served in Vietnam and whose own lives were transformed as a result. She also appraises the experiences of the POWs who came to be embraced as the war's only heroes; the ordeal of Vietnamese refugees who fled their 'American War' to new lives in the United States; and the influential movement created by those who committed themselves to protesting the war. The end result of Ryan's investigations is a cogent synthesis of the vast narrative literature generated by the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Together those stories powerfully demonstrate how deeply the legacies of the war penetrated American culture and continue to reverberate still Analysis "Multi-User" Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Literature and the war Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Influence Soldiers' writings, American -- History and criticism Exiles -- Vietnam -- Biography -- History and criticism War in literature. Soldiers in literature. Peace movements in literature. Prisoners of war in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Peace movements in literature Prisoners of war in literature Soldiers in literature Soldiers' writings, American War and literature War in literature Heimatfront Kriegsgefangener Literatur Vietnamkrieg Nachkriegszeit Vietnam USA Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Personal narratives Form Electronic book LC no. 2008031444 ISBN 9781613761571 1613761570

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