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How Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried Runs Concurrently with the First Fractures in the American Exceptionalist Mindset

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First Reader Kerry Manzo
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 Semester Fall 2023
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Manzo, Kerry
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2023
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This essay explores how Tim O'Brien's 1990 Vietnam War novel The Things They Carried runs concurrently with the earliest scholarly and sociocultural critiques of American exceptionalism in the mid-to-late 20th century. Themes of imperialism, postwar trauma, ethnocentric solipsism, and Orientalism found within the novel are examined and interpreted in conjunction.
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