Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaAllegorical Narratives of the Vietnam War
In this article, the allegorical narrative is examined as a type of extended metaphor in which one simultaneous or parallel narrative structure is maintained together with another, one less “visible” or literal than the other. Three American novels of the period of the Vietnam War are analyzed as ex...
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ITINERÁRIOS – Revue de Littérature
2008
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| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/itinerarios/article/view/2630 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/62462 |
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| description | In this article, the allegorical narrative is examined as a type of extended metaphor in which one simultaneous or parallel narrative structure is maintained together with another, one less “visible” or literal than the other. Three American novels of the period of the Vietnam War are analyzed as examples of allegorical narratives: Asa Baber’s The Land of a Million Elephants (1971); Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers (1967), and Norman Mailer’s Why Are We in Vietnam? (1967). The fi rst, in spite of its apparent allegory, is shown to be more of a generalized fantasy, in the mode of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, on western imperialism in Southeast Asia, while the second and third novels are more successful in constructing more specifically historical and critical allegorical narratives. Keywords: Allegorical narratives. Vietnam War literature. War fiction. |
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| spelling | clacso-CLACSO624622022-03-18T18:27:39Z Allegorical Narratives of the Vietnam War Burns, Tom In this article, the allegorical narrative is examined as a type of extended metaphor in which one simultaneous or parallel narrative structure is maintained together with another, one less “visible” or literal than the other. Three American novels of the period of the Vietnam War are analyzed as examples of allegorical narratives: Asa Baber’s The Land of a Million Elephants (1971); Robert Stone’s Dog Soldiers (1967), and Norman Mailer’s Why Are We in Vietnam? (1967). The fi rst, in spite of its apparent allegory, is shown to be more of a generalized fantasy, in the mode of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, on western imperialism in Southeast Asia, while the second and third novels are more successful in constructing more specifically historical and critical allegorical narratives. Keywords: Allegorical narratives. Vietnam War literature. War fiction. 2008-12-19 2022-03-18T18:27:39Z 2022-03-18T18:27:39Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/itinerarios/article/view/2630 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/62462 por https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/itinerarios/article/view/2630/2305 Copyright (c) 2008 ITINERÁRIOS – Revista de Literatura application/pdf ITINERÁRIOS – Revue de Littérature ITINERÁRIOS – Revista de Literatura ITINERÁRIOS – Revue de Littérature; n.24, 2006 ITINERÁRIOS – Revista de Literatura; n.24, 2006 0103-815X |
| spellingShingle | Burns, Tom Allegorical Narratives of the Vietnam War |
| title | Allegorical Narratives of the Vietnam War |
| title_full | Allegorical Narratives of the Vietnam War |
| title_fullStr | Allegorical Narratives of the Vietnam War |
| title_full_unstemmed | Allegorical Narratives of the Vietnam War |
| title_short | Allegorical Narratives of the Vietnam War |
| title_sort | allegorical narratives of the vietnam war |
| url | https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/itinerarios/article/view/2630 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/62462 |