“Bringing the War Home:” the role of family in the home front during the American war in Vietnam

This article aims at analyzing how two women writers of the “Vietnam Generation,” Bobbie Ann Mason and Jayne Anne Phillips, explored the role played by the traditional hegemonic American family in the social and political conditionings for the war in their respective novels In Country and Machine Dr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cristina Alsina Rísquez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 2018-12-01
Series:Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Online Access:http://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/ExCentric/article/view/6732