The Tet Offensive and the Battle of Khe Sahn as a Watershed of the Vietnam War: Michael Herr's Dispatches
ABSTRACT: The literature of war, independently of genre, tends to record the causes of the conflict, which are generally political and economic. But, it also tends to appoint a kind of aesthetics of reception, in other words, how the conflict is felt and registered by the experiences of the individu...
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| description | ABSTRACT: The literature of war, independently of genre, tends to record the causes of the conflict, which are generally political and economic. But, it also tends to appoint a kind of aesthetics of reception, in other words, how the conflict is felt and registered by the experiences of the individual, whether soldier, writer, journalist or common reader. In Dispatches, the fantasies of the grunts, the allusions to the theory of dominoes, the necessity to win the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese people, and the role of the press are condensed in this remarkable non-fictional narrative. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8c5b6b7a6ec9432cac484cab09416fff2022-12-22T03:15:13ZengUniversidade Federal de Minas GeraisAletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura1679-37492317-20962013-08-01232657610.17851/2317-2096.23.2.65-764528The Tet Offensive and the Battle of Khe Sahn as a Watershed of the Vietnam War: Michael Herr's DispatchesLuiz Carlos Moreira da Rocha0Federal University of Viçosa (UFV)ABSTRACT: The literature of war, independently of genre, tends to record the causes of the conflict, which are generally political and economic. But, it also tends to appoint a kind of aesthetics of reception, in other words, how the conflict is felt and registered by the experiences of the individual, whether soldier, writer, journalist or common reader. In Dispatches, the fantasies of the grunts, the allusions to the theory of dominoes, the necessity to win the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese people, and the role of the press are condensed in this remarkable non-fictional narrative.http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/aletria/article/view/4908Vietnamgruntbattle |
| spellingShingle | Luiz Carlos Moreira da Rocha The Tet Offensive and the Battle of Khe Sahn as a Watershed of the Vietnam War: Michael Herr's Dispatches Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura Vietnam grunt battle |
| title | The Tet Offensive and the Battle of Khe Sahn as a Watershed of the Vietnam War: Michael Herr's Dispatches |
| title_full | The Tet Offensive and the Battle of Khe Sahn as a Watershed of the Vietnam War: Michael Herr's Dispatches |
| title_fullStr | The Tet Offensive and the Battle of Khe Sahn as a Watershed of the Vietnam War: Michael Herr's Dispatches |
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| title_short | The Tet Offensive and the Battle of Khe Sahn as a Watershed of the Vietnam War: Michael Herr's Dispatches |
| title_sort | tet offensive and the battle of khe sahn as a watershed of the vietnam war michael herr s dispatches |
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