Soldier Talk

The Vietnam War in Oral Narrative

By: Michael Zeitlin (Editor), Paul Budra (Editor)

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Hardcover | 21 July 2004

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Soldier Talk is a collection of essays about the Vietnam combat veteran and his representation of his experience. The Vietnam War created a vast archive of recorded accounts of the war, permitting an unprecedented opportunity to confront its brutal secrets. This book is about how to read and how to hear the historical, psychological, and narrative truths of soldiers' talk. The ten chapters explore the phenomenon of soldier talk; the oral narrative form of so much of the Vietnam War literature; the collection of veteran interviews published under the title Nam; Vietnam War poetry; the strange tale of Bobby Garwood, the private who disappeared 10 days before he was to return home and surfaced 13 years later in Hanoi; Vietnam oral history and revolutionary socialism; the historiography of the Vietnam War; "queering Vietnam"; the African American experience of Vietnam; and women and the war. Along the way the authors touch on most of the best-known and most important writing to come out of the war.

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Introduction: Soldier Talk
Approaching a Truer Form of Truth: The Appropriation of the Oral Narrative Form in Vietnam War Literature
Concatenation and History in Nam
""Disremembering, dísmémbering"": Poetics and the Oral Histories of the Vietnam War
Talk, Write, Talk-Bobby Garwood, MIAs, and Conspiracy
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The Things They Saw: Trauma and Vision in A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of Twenty-Six American Women Who Served in Vietnam
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