Year in Nam: A Native American Soldier's Story (North American Indian Prose Award Series)
ベトナム戦争に従軍したジャカリラ・アパッチの体験をたどる回想録。戦場の記憶と帰還後の人生を通して、戦争が個人と共同体に残す傷を静かに描く。
作品情報
戦場の記憶は、帰還してからも長く残り続ける。
Leroy TeCube が、自らの従軍経験をもとに、ベトナム戦争とその後の人生を回想する。個人史として読めると同時に、先住民兵士の視点から戦争と帰還の意味を考えさせる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Bison Books
- 発売日
- 2000-08-01
- ページ数
- 268ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.24 x 1.27 x 22.23 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780803294431
- ISBN-10
- 0803294433
- 価格
- 7062 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/History/Americas/Native American
In 1968 Leroy TeCube left his home on the Jicarilla Apache reservation to serve as an infantryman in Vietnam. Year in Nam is his story of that long, terrifying, and numbing year of combat, one that profoundly affected the men in TeCube’s platoon and tested the strength of his own Native American heritage. Tecube was a respected point man and leader of his platoon. His memoir provides an intimate glimpse of the daily lives of infantrymen—the monotony of camp, the oppressive heat, the deceptively dull routine of patrols, the brief but furious eruptions of combat, the forging of platoon squads on the crucible of trust, a pervasive sadness and indifference, and a growing acceptance of the imminence of death. Particularly powerful are Tecube’s observations and experiences from the perspective of a Native American soldier. Many aspects of TeCube's cultural heritage—his traditional religious beliefs, the farewell blessing from an Apache medicine man, the memory of special powwow dances held back home for soldiers—were a source of strength to him.
Leroy TeCube works in the Environmental Protection Office of the Jicarilla Apache Tribe.
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Great present
my husband read it and loved it.
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Well the only reason I read this book is because ...
Well the only reason I read this book is because my friend Darryl Hadaway is in it. And to be truthful, it is not a well written book.
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When I ordered this it did not state that it ...
When I ordered this it did not state that it was a used library book from a Colorado library!!!! This was to be a Christmas gift for someone who is Native American and served in Viet Nam!!!!
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