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Heroism, masculinity and violence in Vietnam War narratives
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Philip Caputo's memoir, A Rumor of War, debates issues such as heroism, masculinity, violence and sexuality. These issues were identified and linked by Freud at the beginning of the twentieth century, but more confidently verbalised in the aftermath of Vietnam than after any previous war. This chapter seeks to explore this verbalisation, through an examination of a range of textual representations of Vietnam: novels and memoirs by both men and women from both the West and the East. Joanna Bourke has suggested that in the past many men have been reticent about telling their war stories as much because of the pleasure of war as of the horror. The effects of the Vietnam War were double-edged for Le Ly Hayslip. Her narrative, Heaven and Earth, attempts to explain the war from multiple perspectives.

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