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"Plunged Back with Redoubled Force": An Analysis of Selected Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry of the Korean War
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Tierney, John
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1396829149
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2014, Master of Arts, University of Akron, English-Literature.
Abstract
Read together, non-fiction, fiction, and poetry of the Korean War, from American, British, and Korean perspectives, inform one another to create a complex and engaging look into "the forgotten war." Taking a look at National Security documents from the Truman administration as well as Bruce Cumings' War in Korea, the Korean War might be understood from a historical perspective. Now read the fiction and poetry inspired by the war, about the war, sometimes by artists who served in the war, and the cracks begin to show in the master narrative that dictated American and allied nations' policy and action in the Korean conflict. Themes addressed in this thesis are "military readiness", "demeanor and performance", "brutal methods", "politics and propaganda", "bigotry and racism", "counter-culture" and more. The critical approaches used include new historicism, ecocriticism, deconstructionism, and others.
Committee
Mary Biddinger, Dr. (Advisor)
Patrick Chura, Dr. (Committee Member)
Joseph Ceccio, Dr. (Committee Member)
Pages
106 p.
Subject Headings
Asian Literature
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Asian Studies
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History
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Literature
Keywords
Korean War literature
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Korean War fiction
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Korean War poetry
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Truman and Korea
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the forgotten war
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bigotry and racism in Korean War
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US imperialism and the predominance of military power
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Chiri mountain and ecocriticism
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Chiri mountain and hauntology
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Tierney, J. (2014).
"Plunged Back with Redoubled Force": An Analysis of Selected Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry of the Korean War
[Master's thesis, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1396829149
APA Style (7th edition)
Tierney, John.
"Plunged Back with Redoubled Force": An Analysis of Selected Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry of the Korean War.
2014. University of Akron, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1396829149.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Tierney, John. ""Plunged Back with Redoubled Force": An Analysis of Selected Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry of the Korean War." Master's thesis, University of Akron, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1396829149
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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