Making Violence Visible in Vietnam War Narratives: The Case of “A Rumor of War”

Before you leave here, sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteenth-year-old American boy. (Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War) Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stor...

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Main Author: Stefano Rosso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona 2010-01-01
Series:Iperstoria
Online Access:https://iperstoria.it/article/view/823