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Author Chattarji, Subarno

Title Memories of a lost war : American poetic responses to the Vietnam War / Subarno Chattarji
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 248 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford English monographs
Oxford English monographs
Contents Politics and poetry : some contexts and problems for American poetry of the Vietnam War -- Stateside poetry : protest and prophecy -- Veteran poetry : protest and anguish -bringing the war home -- Veteran poetry : combat experience-the actuality and the need to bear witness -- Veteran poetry : the aftermath -- The'other' : Vietnamese poetic representations
Summary "Memories of a Lost War is a study of poetry written primarily by Vietnam veterans during and after the war. Drawing on a wealth of material often published in small presses and journals, the book highlights the horrors of war and the continuing traumas of veterans in a post-Vietnam America that has largely rewritten the Vietnam war to suit dominant national ideologies. The analysis dwells on poems of solidarity wherein American veterans reach out to their former enemy. The concluding chapter on Vietnamese poems in translation extends the circle of memory and trauma. In its inclusion of Vietnamese perspectives, Chattarji's study marks a departure from earlier works that have largely concentrated on Vietnam as a war rather than as a country. This is a unique and significant addition to Vietnam studies and will be of interest to specialists in literature and culture studies, as well as those with a more general interest in the subject."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-245) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Literature and the war
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
War poetry, American -- History and criticism
POETRY -- American -- General.
American poetry
War and literature
War poetry, American
Lyrik
Vietnamkrieg Motiv
Gedichten.
Amerikaans.
Vietnam-oorlog.
Lyrik -- amerikanische -- Motiv -- Vietnamkrieg.
Vietnamkrieg -- Motiv -- Lyrik -- amerikanische.
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
USA
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002278966
ISBN 1423785800
9781423785804
9786610444960
661044496X
9780198187677
019818767X