{"product_id":"american-literature-and-the-experience-of-vietnam-paperback","title":"American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilip D. Beidler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature and the Experience of Vietnam\u003c\/i\u003e is a perceptive and evocative book that is both a comprehensive discussion of the literature of the war and a study of literature and literary consciousness considered in relation to the larger process of cultural myth-making. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his exploration of the ways in which writers have tried to make sense of the Vietnam experience, Philip Beidler brings to light a whole literature that in its moments of fullest achievement quite literally \"creates\" a Vietnam more real than reality. In his discussion of the literature of the war he turns his attention to a wide variety of literary texts: novels, plays, poems, memoirs, oral histories, and works of documentary and reportage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeidler begins with an analysis of the peculiar difficulties involved in writing about an experience like Vietnam. He moves from the early attempts to deal with the experience (including Norman Mailer's \u003ci\u003eWhy Are We in Vietnam?\u003c\/i\u003e and Arthur Kopit's \u003ci\u003eIndians\u003c\/i\u003e) to more recent works as diverse as Robert Stone's \u003ci\u003eDog Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e, Tim O'Brien's \u003ci\u003eGoing after Cacciato\u003c\/i\u003e, Phillip Caputo's \u003ci\u003eA Rumor of War\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Herr's \u003ci\u003eDispatches\u003c\/i\u003e, the plays of David Rabe, the poems of John Balaban and Bruce Weigl, and recently published experiments in oral history such as Al Santoli's \u003ci\u003eEverything We Had\u003c\/i\u003e and Mark Baker's \u003ci\u003eNam\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePHILIP D. BEIDLER is a professor of English at the University of Alabama. He has written or edited more than ten books. Beidler served as an armored cavalry platoon leader in Vietnam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757866909984,"sku":"9780820330242","price":50.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/01f9594c009fcd554bd0c3daf94cc267.webp?v=1780113522","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/american-literature-and-the-experience-of-vietnam-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}