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THE DE-TOTALIZATION OF HISTORY IN TIM O'BRIEN'S THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (1990)
Fecha
2017-01-01Registro en:
Ilha Do Desterro-a Journal Of English Language Literatures In English And Cultural Studies. Florianopolis: Univ Federal Santa Catarina, Programa Pos-graduacao & Letras-ingles, v. 70, n. 1, p. 13-24, 2017.
0101-4846
WOS:000399441100002
WOS000399441100002.pdf
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.