عنوان

A Rumor of Redress: Literature, the Vietnam War, and the Politics of Reconciliation

شماره

T610

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

A Rumor of Redress: Literature, the Vietnam War, and the Politics of Reconciliation

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام ساير پديدآوران

;supervisor: Bow, Leslie; Keller, Lynn

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

The University of Wisconsin - Madison: United States -- Wisconsin

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

: 2012

نام خاص و کميت اثر

254 Pages

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

متن يادداشت

Recent years have seen the emergence of reconciliation as a primary pursuit and dominant trope in the literature surrounding the Vietnam War, marking a literary and cultural shift from the diagnosis of rupture and internal division in the literature during and immediately following the war. This dissertation examines the literature of reconciliation surrounding the Vietnam War and also the disruptive literature of irreconciliation emerging out of that same conflict. Examining the differing and often discordant views of the war and its legacy, I analyze the divergent practices, premises, and stakes of representing reconciliation in the wake of normalization of U.S.-Vietnam relations in 1995. The literature studied in this dissertation includes experiential narratives of return by U.S. veterans, poetry by northern Vietnamese veterans, legacy narratives by the second generation sons and daughters of U.S. vets, and poetry by diasporic Vietnamese writers. Drawing on literary and cultural studies on the Vietnam War, trauma and memory studies, and diaspora and transnational studies, my dissertation performs a model of critical comparativism that maps the transnational contexts of cross-cultural production and at the same time explicates the local figurative sites of reconciliation in literary texts. This dissertation challenges the idea that reconciliation in the case of Vietnam is about greater cultural and historical understanding of opposing perspectives and experiences surrounding the war. Instead, the literature of reconciliation recuperates American and Vietnamese national identities and their normalizing narratives to the exclusion of southern Vietnamese historical and cultural perspectives on the war. Consequently, my dissertation considers the resistance to reconciliation from diasporic Vietnamese writers whose work gives witness to the historical injury and loss of the southern Vietnamese past, but also gives testimony to the ambivalent results of economic liberalism and capitalist globalization of contemporary Vietnam. These irreconciled voices further complicate, contest, and expand what reconciliation means and for whom.

موضوع مستند نشده

Comparative literature

موضوع مستند نشده

American literature

موضوع مستند نشده

Political science

موضوع مستند نشده

South Asian Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Language

اصطلاح موضوعی

literature and linguistics

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social sciences

اصطلاح موضوعی

Cultural memory

اصطلاح موضوعی

Diaspora

اصطلاح موضوعی

Politics of form

اصطلاح موضوعی

Reconciliation

اصطلاح موضوعی

Transnationalism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Vietnam War

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Phan, Hai-Dang Doan

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Bow, Leslie, supervisor

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Keller, Lynn, supervisor

تاريخ و ساعت مذاکره و دسترسي

TL610.pdf

متن ارتباطي

لببیلبیلبیلیب

فرمت انتشار

e

نوع ماده

TL

کد کاربرگه

254359

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y