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While American literary responses to the Vietnam War arethe primary concern of this thesis, The Thin Red Line, a 'late' World War IInovel, is interrogated as a generic benchmark against which the two Vietnamnovels can be compared and contrasted, both in terms of the paradigms ofJapanese and Vietnamese enemy images, and with reference to thedepiction of internal enemies. The close textual analyses provided in thisthesis are broadly historicist and shaped by cultural studies, and the primarytexts are discussed with extensive reference to their social, cultural andhistorical contexts.Four key thematic concerns inform this study of literary enemies andthese frequently interpenetrate: first, American myths of national identity the'self from and in binary opposition to which all American enemies spring;second, the exploitation of gender and sexuality as tropes through whichAmericans and American enemies are shaped; third, race and racistdiscourses (including the imagery of miscegenation, racial 'purity' and'corruption'); and fourth, internecine and intra-subjective enemies and formsof conflict.The 'conventional' enemy in the novels discussed is Japanese orVietnamese, but conceptions of 'the enemy within' also form a centralconcern of this thesis, one that reaches its ultimate expression in the novels'engagement with intra-subjective conflict: war at the level of the self. Thisthesis therefore provides a study of conventional enemies alongside adiscussion of an array of enemies and threats to the soldier subject that arenot exclusively traceable to the actions of the conventional enemy and thatdo not always recede with the formal cessation of hostilities. Additionally, itidentifies and interrogates sites of conflict and expressions of enmity in therelations of writer, narrator and reader.","abstract_html":"The following thesis interrogates representations of the enemy in threeAmerican war novels: James Jones's The Thin Red Line (1962), LarryHeinemann's Paco's Story (1986), and Tim O'Brien's The Things TheyCarried (1990). 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The close textual analyses provided in thisthesis are broadly historicist and shaped by cultural studies, and the primarytexts are discussed with extensive reference to their social, cultural andhistorical contexts.Four key thematic concerns inform this study of literary enemies andthese frequently interpenetrate: first, American myths of national identity the'self from and in binary opposition to which all American enemies spring;second, the exploitation of gender and sexuality as tropes through whichAmericans and American enemies are shaped; third, race and racistdiscourses (including the imagery of miscegenation, racial 'purity' and'corruption'); and fourth, internecine and intra-subjective enemies and formsof conflict.The 'conventional' enemy in the novels discussed is Japanese orVietnamese, but conceptions of 'the enemy within' also form a centralconcern of this thesis, one that reaches its ultimate expression in the novels'engagement with intra-subjective conflict: war at the level of the self. 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