Reading the Wind: The Literature of the Vietnam War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822307495)

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.

Author: Timothy J. Lomperis
ISBN-10: 0822307499
ISBN-13: 9780822307495
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/25/1986
Pages: 186
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d