How Long to Read Friendly Fire : American Images of the Vietnam War
By Riverside Katherine Kinney Associate Professor of English University of California
How Long Does it Take to Read Friendly Fire : American Images of the Vietnam War?
It takes the average reader 3 hours and 57 minutes to read Friendly Fire : American Images of the Vietnam War by Riverside Katherine Kinney Associate Professor of English University of California
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Description
Hundreds of memoirs, novels, plays, and movies have been devoted to the American war in Vietnam. In spite of the great variety of mediums, political perspectives and the degrees of seriousness with which the war has been treated, Katherine Kinney argues that the vast majority of these works share a single story: that of Americans killing Americans in Vietnam. Friendly Fire, in this instance, refers not merely to a tragic error of war, it also refers to America's war with itself during the Vietnam years. Starting from this point, this book considers the concept of "friendly fire" from multiple vantage points, and portrays the Vietnam age as a crucible where America's cohesive image of itself is shattered--pitting soldiers against superiors, doves against hawks, feminism against patriarchy, racial fear against racial tolerance. Through the use of extensive evidence from the film and popular fiction of Vietnam (i.e. Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July, Didion's Democracy, O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, Rabe's Sticks and Bones and Streamers), Kinney draws a powerful picture of a nation politically, culturally, and socially divided, and a war that has been memorialized as a contested site of art, media, politics, and ideology.
How long is Friendly Fire : American Images of the Vietnam War?
Friendly Fire : American Images of the Vietnam War by Riverside Katherine Kinney Associate Professor of English University of California is 234 pages long, and a total of 59,436 words.
This makes it 79% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.
How Long Does it Take to Read Friendly Fire : American Images of the Vietnam War Aloud?
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 24 minutes to read Friendly Fire : American Images of the Vietnam War aloud.
What Reading Level is Friendly Fire : American Images of the Vietnam War?
Friendly Fire : American Images of the Vietnam War is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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