THE DE-TOTALIZATION OF HISTORY IN TIM O'BRIEN'S THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (1990)

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Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Gisele Manganelli [UNESP]
Data de Publicação: 2017
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/165565
Resumo: 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.
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title THE DE-TOTALIZATION OF HISTORY IN TIM O'BRIEN'S THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (1990)
spellingShingle THE DE-TOTALIZATION OF HISTORY IN TIM O'BRIEN'S THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (1990)
Fernandes, Gisele Manganelli [UNESP]
Tim O'Brien
Vietnam War
truth
fiction
Postmodernism
title_short THE DE-TOTALIZATION OF HISTORY IN TIM O'BRIEN'S THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (1990)
title_full THE DE-TOTALIZATION OF HISTORY IN TIM O'BRIEN'S THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (1990)
title_fullStr THE DE-TOTALIZATION OF HISTORY IN TIM O'BRIEN'S THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (1990)
title_full_unstemmed THE DE-TOTALIZATION OF HISTORY IN TIM O'BRIEN'S THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (1990)
title_sort THE DE-TOTALIZATION OF HISTORY IN TIM O'BRIEN'S THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (1990)
author Fernandes, Gisele Manganelli [UNESP]
author_facet Fernandes, Gisele Manganelli [UNESP]
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Fernandes, Gisele Manganelli [UNESP]
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Tim O'Brien
Vietnam War
truth
fiction
Postmodernism
topic Tim O'Brien
Vietnam War
truth
fiction
Postmodernism
description 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.
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