In March 1996, "A Public Symposium: The History, Literature and Music of the Vietnam War," was held at the University of Texas at El Paso. Nationally renowned experts on the Vietnam War offered lectures, poetry readings and music related to this turbulent era in American history. Although more than twenty years have passed since America's involvement in Vietnam, the participants in this symposium put forth deeply passionate and moving analyses of the topics they addressed.
The Vietnam war: Its History, Literature, and Music is a compilation of the papers presented at the symposium. They cover a broad range of themes and ideas, but the overall thematic unity in all of these works is the trauma the war caused, both in Vietnam and the United States. James Fallows opened the symposium with reflections on the impact the war had on major American Institutions. William Duiker and Ngo Thanh Nhan addressed on the effects the war had on Vietnam itself. Sandra Taylor explores the role of American and Vietnamese women who took part in the war. Phillip Beidler and Ray Pratt, in their surveys on the literature and music of the war, also confront the war's impact on Americans. W.D. Ehrhart and John Balaban, who are among the best writers the war produced and both veterans, contribute deeply personal reflections on how the war affected them.
ISBN 0-87404-277-1 Paperback $15.00
6x9, 195 pg., endnotes, biblio 1998
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