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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 131–133.
Published: 01 May 2000
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of never needing to analyze war again. Margot Norris's Writrng War in the Twentieth Cen-
tury falls into the latter camp. Norris's ambitious project spans one hundred years and four
major conflicts (World Wars I and 11, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War) and focuses on
the intense discursive...
Journal Article
Novel (2014) 47 (3): 465–468.
Published: 01 November 2014
... prefer to
believe. Building on the recognition that the absence of violence from the life of the privi-
leged in America has been a source of class and national anxiety at least since the Vietnam
War, Bachner argues convincingly that the antisentimentality of high culture is far from safe
from...
Journal Article
Novel (2022) 55 (3): 501–517.
Published: 01 November 2022
... to look for and to understand how something unexpectedly novelistic supports and maybe subverts the documentary force of The Pentagon Papers . Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Pentagon Papers Vietnam War Moby‐Dick An expert is a man who has read a book that no one else...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Novel (2012) 45 (1): 94–110.
Published: 01 May 2012
... tattoo on the body.1 Like many writers
of the Vietnam War, Truong makes herself visible through the war’s marks and
traces, in the way that Ron Kovic is marked by his battle wounds or Kim Phuc is
recognized from her burn scars.2 But like many second-generation émigré writers,
Truong also...
Journal Article
Novel (2015) 48 (2): 281–285.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., The Covert Sphere makes a place in literary criticism for Johnson's gorgeous Vietnam War novel Tree of Smoke (2007), which it reads alongside Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979). In these texts on the covert sphere surrounding Vietnam, Melley sees the prominence of institutional pressures...
Journal Article
Novel (2007) 40 (3): 305–308.
Published: 01 November 2007
... Ong. Similarly her application of postcolonial time to refer to a
Brahmin author like Robert Lowell, whose translations from the Latin are viewed as sup-
porting his growing opposition to the Vietnam War, stretches Bhabha's concept beyond its
usefulness. Are a poet's translations really...
Journal Article
Novel (2023) 56 (1): 157–161.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the largest antiwar protests since the Vietnam War, but this empirically observable lack of consent could not prevent conflict without the substantive muscle of political power. This lack might explain the apparent consent of the governed more than the fictional logic of preparedness materials. The ultimate...
Journal Article
Novel (2010) 43 (3): 515–518.
Published: 01 November 2010
... and Progressive Era
reformism to the muddy contradictions churned up in the wake of the Vietnam War. By
closely tracking “literary attitudes toward U.S. power” (168), McCann makes a persuasive
case that the American novel—or a good many of them, anyway—remains in dialogue
with the myth of American...
Journal Article
Novel (2022) 55 (3): 381–387.
Published: 01 November 2022
... for literary practices of reading—both textual and narratological—to unfold the material of The Pentagon Papers as a massive and contested textual object that tells us less about the Vietnam War than it does about the impossibility and, sometimes, the mendacity of political explanation. Rajeswari Sunder...
Journal Article
Novel (2001) 35 (1): 136–138.
Published: 01 May 2001
...PAUL GILES JOHN CARLOS ROWE, Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War II (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 377, cloth, $55.00, paper, $19.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2001 2001 Imperial Literary Culture
JOHN CARLOS...
Journal Article
Novel (2007) 40 (3): 309–311.
Published: 01 November 2007
...." By compar-
ing Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998) with the earlier movie Daryl Zanuck's The
Longest Day (1962), Torgovnick underscores the generational difference between pre- and
post-Vietnam representation of war, exemplified by the initial shots of the invasion.
Zanuck prefers long-shots...
Journal Article
Novel (2013) 46 (2): 275–295.
Published: 01 August 2013
.... If this paradox of postwar
American worldliness is not quite as crude or as devastating as “we destroyed
the village in order to save it” a decade later, it is not unrelated to the presupposi-
tions that allowed the Vietnam War to take place and escalate, beginning with
the assumption that US involvement...
Journal Article
Novel (2011) 44 (3): 480–482.
Published: 01 November 2011
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and everywhere discussed during the Victorian era. Brantlinger argues that the more than
thirty years of careful scholarship following Edward Said’s Orientalism make it clear that
the “imperial ideology” that unmistakably flourished between 1880 and World War I was
already present in many ways during...
Journal Article
Novel (2015) 48 (3): 344–362.
Published: 01 November 2015
... reminder that the two operations of language are in fact part of a bipolar system and that it is literary critics who in fact have—aphasia-like—neglected to see the cooperation of metonymy in metaphoric sign systems ( 132–33 ). 7 The Moratorium was an organized protest against the Vietnam War...
Journal Article
Novel (2022) 55 (1): 61–94.
Published: 01 May 2022
... they are in. But though torture may be locally effective, it is broadly counterproductive. Its use wins battles but its practitioners almost always lose the war. The Nazis in Europe, the Balkans, and Russia. The French in Algeria. The United States in Vietnam and Iraq. The Juntas in Greece, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay...
Journal Article
Novel (2016) 49 (1): 158–161.
Published: 01 May 2016
... and Díaz moved to the United States as children; Hemon (following the outbreak of war in Bosnia) was stranded in the United States as an adult; Hamid has lived in the United States at various periods but now lives elsewhere—makes clear that form trumps personal experience as a way of comparing their work...
Journal Article
Novel (2012) 45 (3): 515–518.
Published: 01 November 2012
... so as well, to significantly different ends.) But Bradley’s text tackles the greatest
range of critical opposition, including: Ellison’s supposed commitment to naive national-
ism; his failure to oppose the war in Vietnam or to engage in Pan-African solidarity; the
absence of substantial...
Journal Article
Novel (2022) 55 (1): 38–60.
Published: 01 May 2022
... nationals) were indeed oppressed by the Nazis and subjected to the Nuremberg race laws, excluded from work, interned and murdered in concentration camps, and compelled to do forced labor and propaganda films ( Lusane ). However, immediately following the war, when American forces occupied parts of Germany...
Journal Article
Novel (2022) 55 (3): 406–426.
Published: 01 November 2022
... (presumably developing his political consciousness) in the anticolonial struggles against the Vietnam War. The link between colonial epistemologies and Enlightenment rationality presented itself as an urgent intellectual preoccupation in this context. For Coetzee, this line of critique was not just political...
Journal Article
Novel (2022) 55 (1): 95–112.
Published: 01 May 2022
... is usually not included in discussions of anti-Black racism. And yet, these wars, invasions, and occupations—from the Philippines in 1898 to Afghanistan in 2001, across countries like Japan, Korea, and Vietnam—have indubitably shaped how US citizens see themselves in racial terms. We may be familiar...
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