How Long to Read Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War

How Long Does it Take to Read Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 26 minutes to read Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War by John A. Wood

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In the decades since the Vietnam War, veteran memoirs have influenced Americans’ understanding of the conflict. Yet few historians or literary scholars have scrutinized how the genre has shaped the nation’s collective memory of the war and its aftermath. Instead, veterans’ accounts are mined for colorful quotes and then dropped from public discourse; are accepted as factual sources with little attention to how memory, no matter how authentic, can diverge from events; or are not contextualized in terms of the race, gender, or class of the narrators. Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War is a landmark study of the cultural heritage of the war in Vietnam as presented through the experience of its American participants. Crossing disciplinary borders in ways rarely attempted by historians, John A. Wood unearths truths embedded in the memoirists’ treatments of combat, the Vietnamese people, race relations in the United States military, male-female relationships in the war zone, and veterans’ postwar troubles. He also examines the publishing industry’s influence on collective memory, discussing, for example, the tendency of publishers and reviewers to privilege memoirs critical of the war. Veteran Narratives is a significant and original addition to the literature on Vietnam veterans and the conflict as a whole.

How long is Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War?

Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War by John A. Wood is 258 pages long, and a total of 66,564 words.

This makes it 87% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 3 minutes to read Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War aloud.

What Reading Level is Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War?

Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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