Reading the Wind: The Literature of the Vietnam War - Softcover

Lomperis, Timothy J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822307499 ISBN 13: 9780822307495

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 1986

Synopsis

The decade following the American defeat in Vietnam has been filled with doubts about American politics and values, confusion over the lessons of the war, and anger about the physical and psychological suffering that occurred during the war as well as thereafter. In the years since the U.S. withdrawal, our need to make sense of Vietnam has prompted an outpouring of thinking and writing, from scholarly reappraisals of American foreign policy to highly personal accounts of participants. On the tenth anniversary of the final U. S. withdrawal, the Asia Society sponsored a conference on the Vietnam experience in American literature at which leading writers, critics, publishers, commentators, and academics wrestled with this phenomenon. Drawing on the synergy of this conference, Timothy J. Lomperis has produced an original work that focuses on the growing body of literature—including novels, personal accounts, and oral histories—which describes the experiences of American soldiers in Vietnam as well as the experience of veterans upon their return home.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"A meaty, wide-ranging essay on Vietnam writing . . . highly useful."--"Indochina Chronology"

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0822307499
• ISBN 13: 9780822307495
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186