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Author

Kinney, Katherine, 1959-

Title Friendly fire : American images of the Vietnam War / Katherine Kinney.

Imprint

Oxford, [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	810.9358 K623f 2000	---	Available

Description	viii, 221 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-214) index.
Contents	Indian country revisited : the persistence of John Wayne -- Imperial allegories : American exceptionalism and empire -- "Between the devil and the deep blue" : black historical authority and the Vietnam War -- Grunts : the vernacular of postmodernism -- Humping the boonies : women and the memory of war.
Subject	American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Literature and the conflict.
	National characteristics, American, in literature.
	War stories, American -- History and criticism.
	War poetry, American -- History and criticism.
	Group identity in literature.
ISBN	0195116038 (cloth)
	0195141962 (pbk.)