<b>The de-totalization of history in Tim O`Brien`s The Things They Carried (1990)</b><br>

<b>The de-totalization of history in Tim O`Brien`s The Things They Carried (1990)</b><br>

This paper aims at discussing how Tim O’Brien, a veteran of the Vietnam War, reviews the American involvement in the conflict in his novel The Things They Carried (1990). The author shows the perspective of the soldiers in the stories and, therefore, presents other possibilities to analyze that hist...

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Main Author:	Gisele Manganelli Fernandes
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2010-03-01
Series:	Ilha do Desterro
Subjects:	tim o´brien vietnam war truth fiction postmodernism
Online Access:	https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/18294

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