{"product_id":"warring-fictions-cultural-politics-and-the-vietnam-war-narrative-9781617038426","title":"Warring Fictions: Cultural Politics and the Vietnam War Narrative","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough the Vietnam conflict ended two decades ago, a fierce cultural war over how its literature is to be perceived continues to be waged. \u003cem\u003eWarring Fictions\u003c\/em\u003e charges American critics with twenty years of white-wash and reminds us that Vietnam was not just an American anguish and its fiction a rock-and-roll acid trip. From the blind patriotism of \u003cem\u003eThe Green Berets\u003c\/em\u003e to the postmodern hip of \u003cem\u003eDispatches\u003c\/em\u003e this book brings history and politics back to the Vietnam War novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExposing the complicity of commercial and academic institutions in the writing of recent American history, this study rebukes academic literary culture that speciously purports a radical calling for itself. And it raises important questions about the interlocking interests and ideologies of literary culture, the publishing industry, the mass media, and the academy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith its exemplary command of actual history and its well-documented investigation of the Vietnam fiction canon, this book throws a probing light on a literary culture whose tastes and attitudes have helped enforce a conservative interpretation of the war. In extraordinary readings of \u003cem\u003eThe Quiet American\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Ugly American\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Prisoneres of Quai Dong\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Laotian Fragments\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDispatches\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Things They Carried\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eIn Country\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWarring Fictions\u003c\/em\u003e provides a radical historical perspective on the fiction that emerged from the Vietnam War.","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53734115541335,"sku":"9781617038426","price":27.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/warring-fictions-cultural-politics-and-the-vietnam-war-narrative-9781617038426","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}