دراسات وأبحاث
Volume 17, Numéro 5, Pages 16-25
2025-11-05
Analysing Intertextuality: How The Vietnam War Is Represented In Literature And Film
Authors : Ben Abdallah Ouafa . Bendjeddou Med Yazid .
Abstract
ABSTRACT This study examines how intertextuality serves as a critical framework for analyzing representations of the Vietnam War in American literature and film. Focusing on Tim O’Brien's The Things They Carried, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket. The paper investigates how these works reconfigure trauma, memory, and ideology through literary and cinematic intertextual references. The analysis draws on theories by Kristeva, Genette, Caruth, and Baudrillard, as it combines close reading, narrative theory, and visual semiotics to uncover how each text destabilizes conventional war narratives. The results demonstrate that intertextuality not only transcends media and genres but also exposes the mythologising processes of cultural memory, deconstructs militarised masculinity, and challenges American exceptionalism. The study presents a compelling framework for analysing war narratives, but it also acknowledges that to comprehend the evolving memory of the Vietnam War fully, more comprehensive and inclusive viewpoints are necessary, particularly from Vietnamese sources and new digital media. Keywords : Vietnam War; Intertextuality; Cultural Memory; Trauma Theory; Postmodernism Myth vs. Reality
Keywords
Keywords : Vietnam War; Intertextuality; Cultural Memory; Trauma Theory; Postmodernism Myth vs. Reality
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