Walking Point

American Narratives of Vietnam

By: Thomas Myers

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Hardcover | 30 April 2001

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Arguing that the unprecedented nature of our first postmodernist war demanded either the revision of traditional modes of war writing or the discovery of new styles that would render the emotional and psychological center of a new national trauma, this study assesses the most important novels and personal memoirs written by Americans about the Vietnam War. Myers examines the work of Tim O'Brien, David Halberstam, Ward Just, Stephen Wright, John Del Vecchio, and others working in the modes of realism, the classical memoir, black humor, revised romanticism, and mnemonic narrative. Drawing on the work of thinkers such as Hayden White, Fredric Jameson, and Michel Foucault--whose understanding of the written text as a battleground of competing historical voices expands any definition of historical text--Myers defines the historical novel as a text that self-consciously and imaginatively shapes lived experience into a readable aesthetic form.

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'Walking Point is a welcome addition to the secondary literature on Vietnam writing, and will serve as a challenging introduction to some of the most important texts.' Mark Rawlinson, University of Leicester, Essays in Criticism 'Myers's discussion is intelligent, well cited and wide-ranging' Alasdair Spark, King Alfred's College, Winchester, Journal of American Studies, 24(1990), 2

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Introduction: Walking Point in the American Archive	p. 3
The Camera's Eye	p. 34
The Memoir as "Wise Endurance,"	p. 70
Hearts of Darkness	p. 105
The Writer as Alchemist	p. 140
Shades of Retrieval	p. 186
Afterword: Toward an American Peace	p. 222
Notes	p. 229
Works Cited	p. 237
Index	p. 243
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