Victimhood in American Narratives of the War in Vietnam

Aleksandra Musiał

Language: English

Published: Feb 20, 2020

Description:

This book revisits the American canon of novels, memoirs, and films about the war in Vietnam, in order to reassess critically the centrality of the discourse of American victimization in the country’s imagination of the conflict, and to trace the strategies of representation that establish American soldiers and veterans as the most significant victims of the war.