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"It don't mean nothin'": Vietnam War fiction and postmodernism.(Critical Essay)
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March 22, 2003
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One of the many ironies of the Vietnam War is that the one war America lost gave rise to more and better literature-collectively--than any of America's other twentieth century wars, the overwhelming majority of it written by the war's veterans, who realized early on that this was not their fathers' war. In fact, at least part of the reason for this prodigious outpouring (an ominous 666 novels according to John Newman's Vietnam War Literature: Annotated Bibliography, 1995) of narrative and other modes of literary expression is the synergy generated by the creative opposition of two very different ways of interpreting and representing the Vietnam War. One is through the ...
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