Voices from Captivity

Interpreting the American POW Narrative

(Author) Robert C. Doyle
Format: HardCover
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Doyle shows that, though setting and circumstances may change, POW stories share a common structure and are driven by similar themes. Capture, incarceration, isolation, propaganda, torture, capitulation or resistance, death, spiritual quest, escape, liberation and repatriation are recurrent key motifs in these narratives.

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Publisher:
University Press of Kansas
Format:
HardCover
Language:
en
ISBN:
9780700606634
Publish year:
1994
Publish date:
April 4, 1994

Robert C. Doyle

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