How to Revise a True War Story Tim O Brien s Process of Textual Production 1st Edition by John K Young ISBN 9781609384678 1609384679

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ISBN 10: 1609384679
ISBN 13: 9781609384678
Author: John K Young

How to Revise a True War Story is the first book-length study of O’Brien’s archival papers at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center. Drawing on extensive study of drafts and other prepublication materials, as well as the multiple published versions of O’Brien’s works, John K. Young tells the untold stories behind the production of such key texts as Going After Cacciato , The Things They Carried , and In the Lake of the Woods . By reading not just the texts that have been published, but also the versions they could have been, Young demonstrates the important choices O’Brien and his editors have made about how to represent the traumas of the war in Viet Nam. The result is a series of texts that refuse to settle into a finished or stable form, just as the stories they present insist on being told and retold in new and changing ways. In their lack of textual stability, these variants across different versions enact for O’Brien’s readers the kinds of narrative volatility that is key to the American literature emerging from the war in Viet Nam. Perhaps in this case, you can tell a true war story if you just keep on revising it. 

How to Revise a True War Story Tim O Brien s Process of Textual Production 1st Edition Table of contents:

How (Not) to Tell a True Ghost Story
An exploration of the challenges and nuances in conveying authentic war experiences.​

2. For Sake of a Dead Woman in If I Die in a Combat Zone
An analysis of O’Brien’s early work and its thematic elements.​

3. Tunneling through Revision Sites in Going After Cacciato
A study of the revisions in this novel and their impact on its narrative.​

4. Speaking of Character
An examination of character development across O’Brien’s works.​

5. The Real The Things They Carried
A look into the revisions and versions of this seminal work

6. “Read a Different Book”: Annotating Hidden Histories in In the Lake of the Woods
An analysis of the hidden narratives within this novel.​

7. “Along Comes ’69”: Reading July, July between Magazine and Book
A comparison of the magazine and book versions of this work.​

8. Traumatic Textualities in Recent American War Fiction
A discussion on the representation of trauma in contemporary war literature.

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