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General Information

About the Collection

• Basic information about the collection

• A description and comparison of Viet Nam War Collections

• List of scholars who have visited the Collection from outside the U.S.

• Research based on the collection

General Reference

Genre Studies

Articles listed under each category can be accessed via hyperlink. Clicking on the category name itself will take you to a listing of material in the catalog of Imaginative Representations of the Viet Nam War at La Salle University.

Art

Comic books and cartoons

Drama

Stage plays: Texts and criticism

Musicals: Texts and criticism

Fiction

Novels

Short stories

Adin, Marc B.

• "Jefferson Davis: A Silent Reprise," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Just Down the Hill," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Banko, Stephen T., III

• A Coward for One Minute, Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• "Welcome to the 'Nam," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Barker, Dan

• "The Rescue," Viet Nam Generation 3:4 (January 1992).

Bartel, Dennis

• "Soldiers in the Holy Land: A Memoir," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Boldrini, Nick

• "Attack!" Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Connolly, Sean

• "The Lie of Sergeant Bobby Tumulty," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Vietnam Nirvana: The Nine Steps," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (March 1994).

Duffy, Dan

• "Alice and Jimmy Mac," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• "They Call Me Chilly," Viet Nam Generation 3:4 (January 1992).

Farrell, Alan

• "Half of Three is Two," Viet Nam Generation 4:1-2 (April 1992).
• "The Major Won the Croix de Guerre," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Section formée, z'ef!", Alan Farrell, Viet Nam Generation 3:4 (January 1992).

Jenson, Lu I.

• "A Counselor's Counselors, 1963," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Karlin, Wayne

• "The Last VC," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).

Knorr, William

• "ROTC," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Kohler, J.D.

• "Operations," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Lanquist, Norman

• (Not Much of A) War Story," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).

Lehmann, Robert

• "Drugs," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

McGavran, Frederick J.

• "The Short Timer," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Martin, Timothy

• "Father to Son," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994). Fiction.
• "My Dark Vengeance," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Morrison, Jim

• "Rock Star," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).

Nguyen Huy Thiep

• "Vang Lua" (Fired Gold), Viet Nam Generation 4:1-2 (April 1992).

Olson, D.L.

• "Esprit de Corps," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Pham Thi Hoai

• "Chin Bo Lam Muoi (Nine Down Makes Ten)," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).

Schichler, Robert Lawrence

• "Buffalo Bull," Viet Nam Generation 3:4 (January 1992).

Schulz, Paul

• "Making Sacrifices," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Seiters, Dan

• "The Killer, Trained and Devastating," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Serra, H.L.

• "Ha Tien Stories," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Shields, Bill

• "Blood Rain," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Splitter, Randolph

• "Salad Days," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Sullivan, Jim

• "Out of Step, But On Target," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Tanski, Richard

• "Leaving Limbo's," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Warner, Pate

• "Grief," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Wichers, Ronald J.

• "Myrmidons," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Willson, David A.

• "A Shot and a Wound," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Another Vietnam War Story or Two," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Burning Shit and Filling Sandbags," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Flight to Saigon," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "My First Weeks In Country," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Why I Went to Viet Nam," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).

Yori, Tom

• "Valid Offers, Technical Truths," Viet Nam Generation 4:1-2 (April 1992).

Films

Annotated Bibliography, Compiled by John K. McAskill

Annotated Bibliography (sorted by year of publication), Compiled by John K. McAskill

Documentary (Films, television programs, and videos)

Drama (Feature films and television films and series)

Film ephemera (Posters, lobby cards, still photos, etc. and scripts)

Reviews and Criticism of Vietnam War Theatrical and Television Dramas, Compiled by John K. McAskill

Games

Juvenalia

Manuscripts

Vietnam Generation Archives

Music recordings

Personal narratives (Biography and autobiography)

Brush, Peter

• "The Khe Sanh Veterans' Reunion," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Tour Bus at the Khe Sanh Combat Base," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Campbell, Kenneth J.

• "The International War Crimes Conference, Oslo, June, 1971: Excerpts from the Diary of One of the Witnesses," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Chershouatseeb, Y.

• "Writing the Truth of the Matter: A Hmong-American Student Speaks," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Coleman, Horace

• "Perspectives on Malcolm X," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Connolly, David

• "Another Tale of There and Back Again," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).

Crandell, William

• "What Did America Learn from the Winter Soldier Investigation," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Ehrhart, W.D.

• "Why My Daughter Won't Grow Up in Perkasie," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).

Ensign, Tod

• "Organizing Veterans Through War Crimes Documentation," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Farrell, Alan

• "Cortez in Darien," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991). Personal narrative.
• "The Green Beret: Schreckfigur for a New Age," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Flynn, Robert

• "John Wayne Must Die," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Still the Street Without Joy," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).

Gardner, Fred

• "Hollywood Confidential," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).

Gold, Jerry

• "A Dream of Two Wars," Viet Nam Generation 3:4 (January 1992).

Hall, Palmer

• "First Few Days in Viet Nam," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).

Henry, Ed

• "Forgive and Forget--Then Move On," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

King, William M.

• "What Do We Want?" Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).

Lutz, Gretchen K.

• "And He Blessed Me Unaware: Veterans Eve 1989," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).

Lynch, Jim

• "Solacium Payments," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Mallory, Jack (aka John Mallory)

• "Report on the 25th Reunion of Vietnam Veterans Against the War," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• Testimony in Winter Soldier Investigation (1971)

Mead, Thomas, (pseud.)

• "Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Ohmart, Paul

• "The All-Vietnamese Chinese Mercenary Basketball Tournament," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).

Ridenhour, Ron

• "Jesus Was a Gook," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Rivers, Jordan, (pseud.)

• "Journey into the Sunset: Summer of Love," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Spencer, Ernest

• "My Last War," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).

Stein, Jeff

• "Oh, What a Lovely War," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).

Willson, David A.

• "A Shot and a Wounds," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Another Vietnam War Story," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Burning Shit and Filling Sandbags," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Flight to Saigon," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "My First Weeks In Country," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Why I Went to Viet Nam," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).

Winogura, Kathy

• "My Lai Today," Viet Nam Generation 4:1-2 (April 1992).

Yang, P.

• "I Have a Dream: Another Hmong-American Voice," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Zesiger, A. Carey

• "A Bad Year for Angels," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Photography

Poetry

Amato, Joe

• "impressions of a man dreaming in New York City in 1946," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Antler

• "Anthem," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Bausch, Victor H.

• "Cherry Boy Comes Home from the War," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Chills and Fever," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "GI Party," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Media's Magical Treatment," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Blair, Carol

• "Welcome Home, Ken Wolfe," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Borden, Robert

• "Meat Dreams: A Poem of the Viet Nam War," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Coleman, Horace

• I Don't Suppose I'll Ever Forget, Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• In Ca Mau, Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• Notes for the Veterans War Protest, Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• The Plot to Assassinate the Statue of Liberty, Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• Still Life With Dead Hippie, Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).

Connolly, David

• "All the Stars Do Not Spangle," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• "Anh Hung," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• "Christmas Standdown," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• "Corporal Thach," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992). Poem.
• "In His Father's Footsteps," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• "Letters from My Mom," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• No Lie, GI," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• "One of My Best Friends," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• "Our Fourth LT," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• "Reconciliation," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• "Thoughts on a Monday Morning," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• "20 July 69," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).

Desy, Peter

• "The Dreamers," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).

Diomede, Matthew

• "Bullets from the Heart," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Doak, Suanne

• "Hands," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Poppies," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Dragonsun, Jabiya

• "War Song," Viet Nam Generation 4:1-2 (April 1992).

Duplij, Steven

• "Dawn," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Half-," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Radiation," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Ehrhart, W.D.

• "The Distance We Travel," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Governor Rhodes Keeps His Word," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Guatemala," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "The Last Time I Dreamed about the War," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "The Open Door," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Erben, David L.

• "A Grand Laying of Hands"," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Covering My Feet Again," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "I would squat on the curb," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Loss," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "my primordial tongue athirst," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Waving," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Farmer, Rod

• "My buddy Jerry drove the jeep," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Fritzinger, Dennis

• "army haiku," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Charlie Don't Surf," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).
• "dragon ring," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "eating icecream," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "forests of annam," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "he says laughing," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "jimmy stuart's homecoming," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "kill ratio," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "leopard cats," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "nightmare revisited," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "salt rain," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "this world of water," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "work detail," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Glade, Jon Forrest

• "Adventure Calls," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).
• "Displaying the Flag," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).
• "Fireflies," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).
• "Lifeguard at Eagle Beach," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Nothing Remains," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Gomes, Steven W.

• "Common Ground," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Harris, Bertha

• "Casualty," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Hidalgo, Stephen

• "Good Night," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "The rhetoric of bombs," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).
• "The Threat of Force," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "The War is Over, Abroad," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).

Jaffe, Maggie

• "Ascetic Revolutionary," Viet Nam Generation 4:1-2 (April 1992).
• "Custer's Last Laugh," Viet Nam Generation 4:1-2 (April 1992).
• "For Sam Melville, #26124," Viet Nam Generation 4:1-2 (April 1992).
• "Maria Callas," Viet Nam Generation 4:1-2 (April 1992).
• "Patrice Lumumba," Viet Nam Generation 4:1-2 (April 1992).
• "Paul Robeson," Viet Nam Generation 4:1-2 (April 1992).
• "Tapestry: Mothers of the Disappeared," Viet Nam Generation 4:1-2 (April 1992).

Jones, Bill

• "The Body Burning Detail," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).
• "Five Days Home," Viet Nam Generation 4:1-2 (April 1992).
• "Heathen Killer," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).
• "Near Laos," Viet Nam Generation 4:1-2 (April 1992).

Kunz, Don

• "Vietnam War Memorial," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Lanquist, Norman

• "Cruel Embroidery," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).

Lawson, Melanie Brown

• "Voices from the Past," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

McQueary, Rod

• "for nothing," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• "homeward," Viet Nam Generation 4:1-2 (April 1992).
• "instinct," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• "Near Snowville," Viet Nam Generation 4:1-2 (April 1992).
• "Our Parade," Viet Nam Generation 4:1-2 (April 1992).
• "something--" Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• "White Wall," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).

Moore, Lenard D.

• "A Hum in the Living Room," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• "Grandmother on the Porch," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• "Haiku," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "My Father Leaves for Vietnam," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• "What Was Said on the Porch," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).

Poniewaz, Jeff

• "Burning the Flag," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Why Young Men Wore Their Hair Long in the Sixties," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Quintana, Leroy

• "A Restaurant in Munich," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).
• "Brownie," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).
• "Hopper," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).

Ritterbusch, Dale

• "Bien Hoa, 1968" Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Conversation," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Shoulders," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "When It's Late," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Rodriguez, David

• "The Rifle and the Song," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "The True Cross," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Ross, Julia

• "The Castle of Shariat," Viet Nam Generation 4:1-2 (April 1992).

Scofield, James

• "Lost," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).
• "Nightmare," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).

Shields, Bill

• "ghost poem," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).
• "jingoism," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).
• "miles of bones," Viet Nam Generation 3:3 (November 1991).

splake, t. kilgore

• "Tet," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Swan, Marc

• "Wild Horses," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Something On The Moon," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Tassi, Jane Teresa

• "Ambush," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "The Deathwright," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Ever Hitler," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Goddamnedvietnam Like Götterdämmerung," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "Interview with the Quail Hunter," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Ten Brink, Carole

• "Space Age," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "The Visionary Scientist Speaks," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Trail, B.D.

• "The Grenading," Viet Nam Generation 4:3-4 (November 1992).

Vancil, David

• "The Carnival Elephant's Burial," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "The Homesick Patrol," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).
• "The Thing: First Date," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Wolfe, Ken

• "Faces of Vietnam," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Yost, Don

• "WHUP," Viet Nam Generation 5:1-4 (March 1994).

Online Text Resources by Topic Areas

American culture reflected in the war experience

• "In the Belly of the Beast: MIAs and the Body Politic," Maria Damon
• "Lock and Load High, Part I: The Vietnam War Comes to a Los Angeles Secondary School," Marc Jason Gilbert
• "Doves in a Hawk's Nest: Viet Nam and the American Peace Movement, 1965-75," Charles Howlett

  Autobiography as mythpoeic source

  Central America becoming a new Viet Nam

  Changing images of gender and race

• "State Rape: Representations of Rape in Viet Nam," Karen Stuhldreher

  Commercialization of the war experience

  The "enemy's" point of view

• "Tour Bus at the Khe Sanh Combat Base, 1993," Peter Brush
• "An Officer and a Gentleman: General Vo Nguyen Giap as Military Man and Poet," Cecil B. Currey
• "Literature of Dissent in Viet Nam Today," Dan Duffy
• "A People Not Strong: Vietnamese Images of the Indochina War," Alan Farrell
• "Voices from the Past: The Search for Hanoi Hannah," Don North

Female images in the Viet Nam war

Film versions of the war

• Annotated Bibliography, Compiled by John K. McAskill
• Annotated Bibliography (sorted by year of publication), Compiled by John K. McAskill

Gay perspectives in the war

Gender issues in the Viet Nam war

• "State Rape: Representations of Rape in Viet Nam," Karen Stuhldreher

  Graphic art and the Viet Nam war

  Healing and the aftermath of war trauma

  Hollywood and Viet Nam

• "History and Subjectivity: What We Won't Learn from the Hollywood-Style Vietnam War Film," Michael Selig

  How the war is appropriated to political agendas

• "In the Belly of the Beast: MIAs and the Body Politic, Part I," Maria Damon
• "The Viet Nam War and the British Student Left: A Study in Political Symbolism," Anthony O. Edmonds
• "Government Manipulation and Distortion of History," Louis Wolf

  Interrelationship of war, literature, and the arts

• "Expanding the Viet Nam War Canon: Doctorow, Heller and the Origins of U.S. Intervention," Daniel Zins

  Memory and the war

• "White Cong and Black Clap: The Ambient Truth of Vietnam War Legendry, Part I," John Baky
• "The Khe Sanh Veterans Reunion," Peter Brush

  Missionary work carried on during the war

  Narrative strategies in war writing

• "The Margins of the Viet Nam War," Frédéric Pallez

  Non-fiction films about the Viet Nam war

  Nurse as narrator

  Nursing and the psychology of war

  Pedagogy and the war

• "Teaching the Viet Nam War," Peter Katopes
• "Teach Your Children Well: Raising the Next Generation on the Viet Nam War," Steve Potts

  Platoon: the game (imaginative software)

  Racial tensions among American troops

  Students' projects for courses on the war

  Viet Nam and Graham Greene

  Viet Nam pornography

  Viet Nam Veterans Memorial as myth and metaphor

  Viet Nam war translated into commercial gaming

  Viet Nam war as bildungsroman or roman à clef

  Women as warriors

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