DOCUMENTS
On this page you will find documents for download. We will use these documents to facilitate discussions or to supplement our understanding of literature and the experience of war.
"Michael Herr: Start in Kansas, End in Oz"
Chapter 23 from The Art of Memoir
by Mary Karr
" The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Commemorating a Difficult Past" by Robin Wagner-Pacifici and Barry Schwartz. From the American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 97, No. 2 (Sept. 1992) pp. 376-420.
"Michael Herr's Dispatches and the Allure of Combat"
Chapter 2 from Reading Vietnam Amid the War on Terror
by Ty Hawkins
"Appropriation of Generic Convention: Film as Paradigm in Michael Herr's Dispatches"
By Maggie Gordon
From Literature Film Quarterly
"Violent Death as Essential Truth in Dispatches: Re-Reading Micheal Herr's 'secret history' of the Vietnam War"
By Ty Hawkins
From War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities
"Representing the Experience of War: Michael Herr's Dispatches and Literary Journalism"
By Paul D. Morris
From The Sixties Revisited: Culture-Society-Politics
Edited by Jurgen Heideking
Jorg Helbig
Anke Ortlepp