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The De-Totalization of History in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried
Fecha
2010Registro en:
Ilha do Desterro, v. 59, p. 13-24, 2010.
0101-4846
10.5007/2175-8026.2010n59p13
ISSN0101-4846-2010-59-13-24.pdf
8253780888713594
Autor
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Institución
Resumen
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 historical fact. The interplay of fiction and truth is essential for O’Brien to reach the objective of reevaluating official history in order to make the readers rethink the past.