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Herstories of war: Representations of silence in women's Vietnam/American war narratives.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Herstories of war: Representations of silence in women's Vietnam/American war narratives./
Author:	Johnson, Alison M.
Description:	301 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-11A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10123652
ISBN:	9781369001655

Herstories of war: Representations of silence in women's Vietnam/American war narratives.
Johnson, Alison M.

Herstories of war: Representations of silence in women's Vietnam/American war narratives. - 301 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2016.

JOHNSON, ALISON M., Ph.D. Herstories of War: Women's Representations of Silence in Vietnam/American War Narratives. (2016) Directed by Dr. Noelle Morrissette. 294 pp. Much of Vietnam War literary scholarship focuses on white male narratives of the conflict. By alternatively drawing on feminist rhetorical theories of silence, listening, and praxis, my dissertation interrogates traditional psychoanalytic thought by investigating how American, Vietnamese, and Vietnamese-American women who experienced the war provide a different model for narrating the war and coping with trauma. These women must contend with misogynist and, for some, racist practices embedded within patriarchal regimes of power in media, education, psychoanalytic frameworks, government, the academy, and the family, in addition to their experiences of the war. These constraints create conditions that mandate working outside of these patriarchal institutions so that these women can cope with their trauma on their own terms. To do so, women protagonists resort to using silence to allow themselves time and space away from the dominant psychoanalytic framework that emphasizes rendering one's experiences into words as a necessary coping practice. Through the use of silence and selective telling, these women develop their own mode for coping with trauma to imbue themselves with their own sense of agency and self-empowerment.

ISBN: 9781369001655Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

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