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T1 Dear America: la neutralidad imposible
A1 Río Raigadas, David
AB This paper explores the pretense of neutrality assumed by DearAmerica: Letters Home from Vietnam (1985), a compilation of letterswritten by G.I.’s in Vietnam. It is argued that its claim to political andmoral innocence clashes with its stated intention of memoralizing Vietnamveterans. The paper shows how the book fails in his attempt toconfine the role of the letters to an emotional and personal level. Theletters emerge as texts which do not avoid examination of the political,moral and military issues concerning the war. The article also analysesthe image of neutrality that the film version of this book (a documentarydirected by Bill Couturie in 1987) pretends to convey. It is concludedthat the avoidance of the war’s traumatic issues in the film constitutesan indirect support for the official U.S. view on the Vietnameseconflict.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 1995
FD 1995
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/30618
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/30618
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 01-may-2024