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"just a creature of his own making": metafiction, identification, and gender in going after cacciato
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In this article, the main character Paul Berlin fantasizes a young Vietnamese refugee named Sarkin Aung Wan and draws attention to Wan as a product of Berlin's imagination, which produces a metafictional construction of authorship and an imaginative construction of cross-gender identification that distance the novel from gender ideologies traditionally associated with war fiction.Abstract:
In Tim O’Brien’s Going after Cacciato , the main character Paul Berlin fantasizes a young Vietnamese refugee named Sarkin Aung Wan. Berlin conjures Wan from generic conventions from the western, the romance, the war story, and most originally in O’Brien scholarship, contemporary depictions of the National Liberation Front’s female peace negotiator Nguyen Thi Binh. This essay suggests that by drawing attention to Wan as a product of Berlin’s imagination, the novel produces a metafictional construction of authorship and an imaginative construction of cross-gender identification that distance the novel from gender ideologies traditionally associated with war fiction.read more
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Tim O’Brien’s “Bad” Vietnam War: Going after Cacciato & Its Historical Perspective
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Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America
TL;DR: In this article, the role of the frontier in the development of the American national character is examined. But the focus of the book is not on the frontier itself, but on the mythologizing of frontier in various commercial genres.
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The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction
TL;DR: Palpable designs: Four American Short Stories An American Dream: Rip Van Winkle Growing Up Male in America: I Want to Know Why Women Beware Science: The Birthmark A Rose for A Rose For Emily 2. A Farewell to Arms: HemingwayOs Resentful Cryptogram 3. The Great Gatsby: FitzgeraldOs droit de seigneur 4. The Bostonians: Henry JamesOs Eternal Triangle 5.
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Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America
TL;DR: In this article, the authors leave blank a blank page intentionally left blank from inquiry to academic writing a text and reader aronson11e fm aronson 11e e m aronson et al.