A Shadow on Our Hearts: Soldier-Poetry, Morality, and the American War in Vietnam - Couverture souple

Gilbert, Adam

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1625343019 ISBN 13 : 9781625343017

Editeur : University of Massachusetts Press, 2018

Synopsis

The American war in Vietnam was one of the most morally contentious events of the twentieth century, and it produced an extraordinary outpouring of poetry. Yet the complex ethical terrain of the conflict is remarkably underexplored, and the prodigious poetic voice of its American participants remains largely unheard. In A Shadow on Our Hearts, Adam Gilbert rectifies these oversights by utilizing the vast body of soldier-poetry to examine the war's core moral issues.

The soldier-poets provide important insights into the ethical dimensions of their physical and psychological surroundings before, during, and after the war. They also offer profound perspectives on the relationships between American soldiers and the Vietnamese people. From firsthand experiences, they reflect on what it meant to be witnesses, victims, and perpetrators of the war's violence. And they advance an uncompromising vision of moral responsibility that indicts a range of culprits for the harms caused by the conflict. Gilbert explores the powerful and perceptive work of these soldier-poets through the lens of morality and presents a radically alternative, deeply personal, and ethically penetrating account of the American war in Vietnam.

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À propos de l'auteur

Adam Gilbert, a writer and historian, earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge and was a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Sussex.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Massachusetts Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1625343019
• ISBN 13: 9781625343017
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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• Personne responsable: non disponible