Poetry by american women veterans

While there is a significant body of literature - fiction, memoirs, poetry - by American male veterans that has been discussed and analyzed, writings by American women who served in Vietnam receive less attention. This essay looks at some poetry by women within contexts of collective political and cultural amnesia. It argues that in recovering women's voices there is often a reiteration of dominant masculine tropes which in turn does not interrogate fundamental structures and justifications of the Vietnam War. However, the poems are indicative of alternative visions, of "things worth living for" in the aftermath of a war that has specific reverberations in the United States of America

American literature · American poetry · Amnesia · Art · Literature · Memoir · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vietnam War · Vision · Anthropology · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact

• The Subject Makes a Difference

  Open Access•Lorrie Smith•Journal of American Culture•1993

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• Vietnam Images

  Open Access•Jeffrey Walsh, James Aulich•Vietnam Images•1989

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• Things Worth Dying for

  Susan Jeffords•Cultural Critique•1987

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• Missing in Action

  Carol Lynn Mithers•Cultural Critique•1986

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• In the Combat Zone

  Linda Kelly Alkana, Kathryn Marshall•Journal of American History•1988

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• Great Expectations

  Open Access•Gill Plain•Feminist Review•1995

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• Home from the War

  Bernard Brodie, Bernard B Brodie et al.•The Journal of Interdisciplinary…•1975

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• Culture and Imperialism

  Andrew J Pierre, Edward Said et al.•Foreign Affairs•1993

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