The Other Side of Grief: The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam War

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Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Vietnam War and Modern Memory 1 Chapter 1. MIA in America: Vietnam Aftermath Narratives 13 Chapter 2. The Other Side of Grief: American Women Writers and the Vietnam War 60 Chapter 3. Years of Darkness: Narratives by and about American Prisoners of the Vietnam War 98 Chapter 4. The Fugitive’s Hour: The Counterculture and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement in American Fiction 152 Chapter 5. Something Strange and Extravagant: Personal Histories by Vietnam Antiwar Movement Activists 206 Chapter 6. People Singing a Sad Song: Vietnamese Exiles in American Literature 252 Conclusion: We Were All There 294 Notes 301 Works Cited 313 Index 331 Ryan.indb ix Ryan.indb ix 8/22/2008 3:11:42 PM 8/22/2008 3:11:42 PM Ryan.indb x Ryan.indb x 8/22/2008 3:11:42 PM 8/22/2008 3:11:42 PM ...