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

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Author
Reilly, Martyn
Keyword
First Reader Kerry Manzo
Senior Project
Semester Fall 2023
Readers/Advisors
Manzo, Kerry
Term and Year
Fall 2023
Date Published
2023

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/14045
Abstract
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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