Pathfinder: Literature from the Vietnam War

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Scope
This pathfinder is a guide to locating information about the large volume of literature emanating from the Vietnamese Conflict.
General Print Sources
Beidler, Philip D. American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam. Call No. : PS228.V5 B4 1982

Carrying the Darkness : American Indochina : the Poetry of the Vietnam War / W.D. Ehrhart, editor. Call No. : PS595.V5 C37 1985

Franklin, H. Bruce. Vietnam War in American Stories, Songs, and Poems. Call No.: PS509.V53 V55 1996

Harris, Norman, 1951- Connecting Times : the Sixties in Afro-American Fiction. Call No. : PS153.N5 H27 1988

Jason, Philip K. Acts and Shadows: The Vietnam War in American Literary Culture. 2000. Call No. : PS228.V5 J37 2000

Lowenfels, Walter. Where is Vietnam? American Poets Respond; an Anthology of Contemporary Poems. Call No. : DS557.A61 L6

Mersmann, James F., 1938- Out of the Vietnam Vortex; a Study of Poets and Poetry Against the War. Call No. : PS 309 .P7 M4

Neilson, Jim. Warring fictions : American Literary Culture and the Vietnam War Narrative. Call No. : PS228.V5 N45 1998

Robbins, Mary S.(ed). Against the Vietnam War: Writing by Activists. Call No.:  DS559.62.U6 A35 1999

Visions of War, Dreams of Peace : Writings of Women in the Vietnam War / edited by Lynda Van Devanter and Joan A. Furey. Call No. : PS595.V5 V57 1991

Ringnalda, Don. Fighting and Writing the Vietnam War. Call No.: PS228.V5 R56 1994

Walsh, Jeffrey. American War Literature, 1914 to Vietnam. Call No. : PS228.W37 W3 1982

Bibliographies

Jason, Philip K., 1941- The Vietnam War in Literature : an Annotated Bibliography of Criticism. Call No. : Z1227 .J37 1992 [Reference Collection]

Newman, John, 1942- Vietnam War Literature : an Annotated Bibliography of Imaginative Works about Americans Fighting in Vietnam. Call No. : Z1227 .N49 1982 [Reference Collection] A Bibliography of Viet Nam War Literature Bibliography / Wilson & Kendall, the  Sixties Project
Bibliography of Vietnam War Drama / DeRose, the Sixties Project

Subject
Headings
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Fiction.
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Literature and the conflict
\Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Poetry
War in Literature
Keywords: Vietnam, Vietnamese Conflict, literature, fiction, poetry, drama, personal narratives
O'Brien, Tim

Electronic Books

Vietnam War Literature : An Annotated Bibliography of Imaginative Works About Americans Fighting in Vietnam by Newman, John Lanham, MD Scarecrow Press, 1996.
The Viet Nam War/the American War : Images and Representations in Euro-American and Vietnamese Exile Narratives by Christopher, Renny.
Vietnam and the Southern Imagination by Gilman, Owen W. Jackson, Miss. University Press of Mississippi, 1992.
Fighting and Writing the Vietnam War by Ringnalda, Don. Jackson, Miss. University Press of Mississippi, 1994.
Vietnam Protest Theatre : The Television War On Stage Drama and Performance Studies by Alter, Nora M. Bloomington Indiana University Press, 1996.
The Wars We Took to Vietnam : Cultural Conflict and Storytelling by Bates, Milton J. Berkeley University of California Press, 1996.
Warring Fictions : American Literary Culture and the Vietnam War Narrative by Neilson, Jim. Jackson University Press of Mississippi, 1998.
Writing between the Lines : An Anthology On War and Its Social Consequences by Bowen, Kevin Amherst, Mass. University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.
Receptions of War : Vietnam in American Culture Oklahoma Project for Discourse and Theory ; V. 10 by Martin, Andrew. Norman University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
Journals
Project Muse - Search
JSTOR - Search
American Literary History is available from 2000 to present in Project Muse.
American Literary Scholarship is available from 1998 to present in Project Muse.
American Literature is available as follows: [from 1999 to present in Project Muse] [from 1929 to 1999+ in JSTOR]
American Literature; a journal of literary history, criticism and bibliography is available from 9/1/1997 to present in ProQuest Research Library.
Contemporary Literature is available as follows: [from 3/22/1992 to 9/22/1999 in Expanded Academic ASAP] [from 1/1/1995 to present in Wilson Select Plus] [from 1/1/1994 to 12/31/1998 in ProQuest Research Library]
CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction is available from 9/22/1992 to present in Expanded Academic ASAP.
War, Literature & the Arts [US Air Force Academy]
Vietnam Generation Journal Online / UVA
Journal of modern literature from 01/01/1996 to 06/01/1997 in ProQuest Research Library; from 01/01/1998 to present in ProQuest Research Library; from 06/01/1997 to present in Wilson Select Full Text Plus; from 06/01/1999 to present in Expanded Academic ASAP, General Reference Center Gold and InfoTrac OneFile; from Winter 1998/1999 to present in Project Muse
Studies in 20th century literature  from 06/01/1999 to present in Wilson Select Full Text Plus
Studies in American fiction  from 03/01/2001 to present in Wilson Select Full Text Plus; from 03/01/1993 to present in Expanded Academic ASAP, General Reference Center Gold and InfoTrac OneFile
Indexes & Databases
America: History and Life
ArticleFirst
Books in Print
Ingenta Journal Index
Contemporary Literary Criticism
ECO - OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online Database--OCLC
Expanded Academic ASAP, 1980-
Facts .com
FindArticles.com
InfoTrac OneFile
MLA International Bibliography
National Newspaper Index, Last 3 years-
ProQuest Direct
WilsonSelectPlus
WorldCat
Internet Resources

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