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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Main Author: Luiz Carlos Moreira da Rocha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2013-08-01
Series:Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura
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Online Access:http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/aletria/article/view/4908