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Author : Larry Rottmann
Release : 1972
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis Winning Hearts & Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans by : Larry Rottmann
Download or read book Winning Hearts & Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans written by Larry Rottmann. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems by Vietnam War veterans.
Author : Larry Rottmann (1942- comp)
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Genre : American poetry
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Book Synopsis Winning Hearts and Minds; War Poems by Vietnam Veterans. Edited by Larry Rottmann, Jan Barry [and] Basil T. Paquet by : Larry Rottmann (1942- comp)
Download or read book Winning Hearts and Minds; War Poems by Vietnam Veterans. Edited by Larry Rottmann, Jan Barry [and] Basil T. Paquet written by Larry Rottmann (1942- comp). This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Larry Rottmann
Release : 1972
Genre : Veterans' writings, American
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Book Synopsis Winning Hearts and Minds by : Larry Rottmann
Download or read book Winning Hearts and Minds written by Larry Rottmann. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Bibby
Release : 1996
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Hearts and Minds by : Michael Bibby
Download or read book Hearts and Minds written by Michael Bibby. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early 1960s to the mid-1970s was one of the most turbulent periods in American history. The U.S. military was engaged in its longest, costliest overseas conflict, while the home front was torn apart by riots, protests, and social activism. In the midst of these upheavals, an underground and countercultural press emerged, giving activists an extraordinary forum for a range of imaginative expressions. Poetry held a prominent place in this alternative media. The poem was widely viewed by activists as an inherently anti-establishment form of free expression, and poets were often in the vanguards of political activism. Hearts and Minds is the first book-length study of the poems of the Black Liberation, Women's Liberation, and GI Resistance movements during the Vietnam era. Drawing on recent cultural and literary theories, Bibby investigates the significance of images, tropes, and symbols of human bodies in activist poetry. Many key political slogans of the period--"black is beautiful," "off our backs"--foreground the body. Bibby demonstrates that figurations of bodies marked important sites of social and political struggle. Although poetry played such an important role in Vietnam-era activism, literary criticism has largely ignored most of this literature. Bibby recuperates the cultural-historical importance of Vietnam-era activist poetry, highlighting both its relevant contexts and revealing how it engaged political and social struggles that continue to motivate contemporary history. Arguing for the need to read cultural history through these "underground" texts, Hearts and Minds offers new grounds for understanding the recent history of American poetry and the role poetry has played as a medium of imaginative political expression.
Author : Lorrie Goldensohn
Release : 2006-04-18
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Dismantling Glory by : Lorrie Goldensohn
Download or read book Dismantling Glory written by Lorrie Goldensohn. This book was released on 2006-04-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dismantling Glory presents the most personal and powerful words ever written about the horrors of battle, by the very soldiers who put their lives on the line. Focusing on American and English poetry from World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War, Lorrie Goldensohn, a poet and pacifist, affirms that by and large, twentieth-century war poetry is fundamentally antiwar. She examines the changing nature of the war lyric and takes on the literary thinking of two countries separated by their common language. World War I poets such as Wilfred Owen emphasized the role of soldier as victim. By World War II, however, English and American poets, influenced by the leftist politics of W. H. Auden, tended to indict the whole of society, not just its leaders, for militarism. During the Vietnam War, soldier poets accepted themselves as both victims and perpetrators of war's misdeeds, writing a nontraditional, more personally candid war poetry. The book not only discusses the poetry of trench warfare but also shows how the lives of civilians—women and children in particular—entered a global war poetry dominated by air power, invasion, and occupation. Goldensohn argues that World War II blurred the boundaries between battleground and home front, thus bringing women and civilians into war discourse as never before. She discusses the interplay of fascination and disapproval in the texts of twentieth-century war and notes the way in which homage to war hero and victim contends with revulsion at war's horror and waste. In addition to placing the war lyric in literary and historical context, the book discusses in detail individual poets such as Wilfred Owen, W. H. Auden, Keith Douglas, Randall Jarrell, and a group of poets from the Vietnam War, including W. D. Ehrhart, Bruce Weigl, Yusef Komunyakaa, David Huddle, and Doug Anderson. Dismantling Glory is an original and compelling look at the way twentieth-century war poetry posited new relations between masculinity and war, changed and complicated the representation of war, and expanded the scope of antiwar thinking.
