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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 783–810.
Published: 01 December 2019
... but without forfeiting the cultural center, or the front seat in the classroom. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 whiteness war literature Vietnam War Tim O’Brien Robert Olen Butler At the end of a long book tour, the novelist Tim O’Brien welcomed Tobey Herzog, a literature...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 543–569.
Published: 01 September 2020
....” Monique Truong ( 1997 ) expressed this anxiety more vehemently. Robert Olen Butler’s use of “first-person voice(s) and identities” of Vietnamese Americans in A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (a 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction) was a “blatant act of ‘yellowface’” (76), a “finalizing step...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 653–654.
Published: 01 September 2010
... by Robert Mason, Larry Heinemann, Tim O’Brien, and with the perhaps lesser-known work of Ward Just and Robert Olen Butler. Still, the genuine power of The Other Side of Grief comes not from the book’s encyclopedic scope but from the author’s sympathetic discoveries and illuminations among the many...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 651–652.
Published: 01 September 2010
... by Robert Mason, Larry Heinemann, Tim O’Brien, and with the perhaps lesser-known work of Ward Just and Robert Olen Butler. Still, the genuine power of The Other Side of Grief comes not from the book’s encyclopedic scope but from the author’s sympathetic discoveries and illuminations among the many...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 637–639.
Published: 01 September 2010
... a Sad Song: Vietnamese Exiles in American Literature.” Ryan does spend some time with well-known narratives by Robert Mason, Larry Heinemann, Tim O’Brien, and with the perhaps lesser-known work of Ward Just and Robert Olen Butler. Still, the genuine power of The Other Side of Grief comes...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 639–641.
Published: 01 September 2010
... by Robert Mason, Larry Heinemann, Tim O’Brien, and with the perhaps lesser-known work of Ward Just and Robert Olen Butler. Still, the genuine power of The Other Side of Grief comes not from the book’s encyclopedic scope but from the author’s sympathetic discoveries and illuminations among the many...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 641–643.
Published: 01 September 2010
... by Robert Mason, Larry Heinemann, Tim O’Brien, and with the perhaps lesser-known work of Ward Just and Robert Olen Butler. Still, the genuine power of The Other Side of Grief comes not from the book’s encyclopedic scope but from the author’s sympathetic discoveries and illuminations among the many...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 644–646.
Published: 01 September 2010
... by Robert Mason, Larry Heinemann, Tim O’Brien, and with the perhaps lesser-known work of Ward Just and Robert Olen Butler. Still, the genuine power of The Other Side of Grief comes not from the book’s encyclopedic scope but from the author’s sympathetic discoveries and illuminations among the many...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 646–648.
Published: 01 September 2010
... a Sad Song: Vietnamese Exiles in American Literature.” Ryan does spend some time with well-known narratives by Robert Mason, Larry Heinemann, Tim O’Brien, and with the perhaps lesser-known work of Ward Just and Robert Olen Butler. Still, the genuine power of The Other Side of Grief comes...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 648–650.
Published: 01 September 2010
... a Sad Song: Vietnamese Exiles in American Literature.” Ryan does spend some time with well-known narratives by Robert Mason, Larry Heinemann, Tim O’Brien, and with the perhaps lesser-known work of Ward Just and Robert Olen Butler. Still, the genuine power of The Other Side of Grief comes...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 654–656.
Published: 01 September 2010
... by Robert Mason, Larry Heinemann, Tim O’Brien, and with the perhaps lesser-known work of Ward Just and Robert Olen Butler. Still, the genuine power of The Other Side of Grief comes not from the book’s encyclopedic scope but from the author’s sympathetic discoveries and illuminations among the many...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 656–658.
Published: 01 September 2010
... by Robert Mason, Larry Heinemann, Tim O’Brien, and with the perhaps lesser-known work of Ward Just and Robert Olen Butler. Still, the genuine power of The Other Side of Grief comes not from the book’s encyclopedic scope but from the author’s sympathetic discoveries and illuminations among the many...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 659–661.
Published: 01 September 2010
... by Robert Mason, Larry Heinemann, Tim O’Brien, and with the perhaps lesser-known work of Ward Just and Robert Olen Butler. Still, the genuine power of The Other Side of Grief comes not from the book’s encyclopedic scope but from the author’s sympathetic discoveries and illuminations among the many...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 661–662.
Published: 01 September 2010
... a Sad Song: Vietnamese Exiles in American Literature.” Ryan does spend some time with well-known narratives by Robert Mason, Larry Heinemann, Tim O’Brien, and with the perhaps lesser-known work of Ward Just and Robert Olen Butler. Still, the genuine power of The Other Side of Grief comes...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 412–414.
Published: 01 June 2014
... are of Wayne Karlin, Robert Olen Butler, Mary Gardner, and Lan Cao, writers who write about or are connected to the Vietnamese community in the South. Throughout, Gray’s prose is graceful and engaging. He also has a light touch with theorists like Mikhail Bakhtin, Benedict Anderson, and Gilles...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 391–393.
Published: 01 June 2014
... considers how immigrants’ experiences of the South have “immeasur- ably enriched” Southern writing (220). Indeed, the book’s most arresting read- ings are of Wayne Karlin, Robert Olen Butler, Mary Gardner, and Lan Cao, writers who write about or are connected to the Vietnamese community in the South...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 394–396.
Published: 01 June 2014
...). This is particularly true in the book’s final pages, as Gray considers how immigrants’ experiences of the South have “immeasur- ably enriched” Southern writing (220). Indeed, the book’s most arresting read- ings are of Wayne Karlin, Robert Olen Butler, Mary Gardner, and Lan Cao, writers who write about...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 397–400.
Published: 01 June 2014
... are of Wayne Karlin, Robert Olen Butler, Mary Gardner, and Lan Cao, writers who write about or are connected to the Vietnamese community in the South. Throughout, Gray’s prose is graceful and engaging. He also has a light touch with theorists like Mikhail Bakhtin, Benedict Anderson, and Gilles...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 400–402.
Published: 01 June 2014
... are of Wayne Karlin, Robert Olen Butler, Mary Gardner, and Lan Cao, writers who write about or are connected to the Vietnamese community in the South. Throughout, Gray’s prose is graceful and engaging. He also has a light touch with theorists like Mikhail Bakhtin, Benedict Anderson, and Gilles...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 402–405.
Published: 01 June 2014
... considers how immigrants’ experiences of the South have “immeasur- ably enriched” Southern writing (220). Indeed, the book’s most arresting read- ings are of Wayne Karlin, Robert Olen Butler, Mary Gardner, and Lan Cao, writers who write about or are connected to the Vietnamese community in the South...