SPECIAL ISSUE

Cultural  Critique

No. 3, Spring 1986

American Representations of Vietnam

Edited by

John Carlos Rowe, University of California, Irvine

Richard Berg, Occidental College

Scholars and critics in many disciplines have begun to study the great variety of
documents, personal accounts, and stylized representations of America's war
with Vietnam. In many ways, it was a war waged by various media as well as in
actual combat, and the aftermath of this war continues to haunt us with difficult
questions about how the representation of another culture shapes foreign pol-
icy and public opinion. The Vietnam War tells us that politics and literature,
historical fact and personal impression, documentary account and expressive
form are involved with each other in the complex ways of cultural self-repre-
sentation. This special issue of Cultural Critique offers various approaches to
these practical and theoretical issues in the American representations of the
Vietnam War.

John Carlos Rowe and Richard Berg,
Vietnam in the Academy: Observa-
tions on the Rhetoric of Scholarship

John Carlos Rowe, Documentary Styles
in  the American  Representation  of
Vietnam

Michael Clark,  Snapshots: Remember-

ing Vietnam

Claudia Springer, Military Propa-
ganda: Defense  Department  Films
from World War II to Vietnam

Richard Berg, Coming Home: The Vet-

eran on Television and in Film

Noam Chomsky, Reflections on the In-

dochina Wars

Philip Kuberski, Genres of Vietnam
John M. Jakaitis, Two Versions of an
Unfinished  War: Dispatches and
Going after Cacciato

W. D. Ehrhart, Poetry

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