Veterans in Ruins: The Soldier’s Impossible Homecoming in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried
The notion of homecoming is the focal point of Tim O’Brien’s short story “Speaking of Courage,” which presents an irreconcilable scission between the present and the soldier’s past self and life, before the war. This cleavage is mainly embodied in the landscape of the story: the city that was once f...
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2022-05-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/19115 |
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