Where is the battle?: class, race and identity in Daniel Cano's "Somewhere outside Duc Pho"

• Autores: Berta Delgado Melgosa
• Localización: The Short Story in English [Recurso electrónico]: crossing boundaries / Gema Soledad Castillo García (ed. lit.), María Rosa Cabellos Castilla (ed. lit.), Juan Antonio Sánchez Jiménez (ed. lit.), Vincent Carlisle Espínola (ed. lit.), 2006, ISBN 8481387096, págs. 291-300
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper presents a brief overview of the Vietnam War experience in Chicano Literature. To this purpose, we use the short story “Somewhere Outside Duc Pho”, written by Daniel Cano. Therefore, we will focus the ironic situation of the Chicano soldier in Vietnam who had a sense of patriotic duty to a government and a larger society, which treated them, at best, as second-class citizens. Finally, this article will show an analysis of the consequences of ethnic identity and empathic identification of the Chicano veterans with the Vietnamese people, because certain studies of the high incidence of PTSD in Chicano Vietnam veterans, and other ethnic minorities, have also found identification to be at fundamental issue.