Resisting Remasculinization: Tim O’Brien’s “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”
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Feminist scholars dispute that Tim O’Brien’s “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” either reinforces gender stereotypes or challenges them. Criticism from either side of this debate seems to focus heavily on a discussion of female characters within The Things They Carried: Mary Ann, Martha, Lemon’s sister, the older woman at the reading, and Linda. Nevertheless, both sides of the debate mention masculinity only briefly when exploring O’Brien’s portrayal of women. While most Vietnam War writing reinforces gender stereotypes, effectively functioning as the process of remasculinization that Susan Jeffords describes in The Remasculinization of America, I will argue that “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” is distinct from this writing, consequently challenging stereotypical discourses of masculinity. I will focus on O’Brien’s primary female character, Mary Ann, in relation to the text as a critique of gender binaries and also as a challenge for a variety of other dualisms.
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Feminist scholars dispute that Tim O’Brien’s “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” either reinforces gender stereotypes or challenges them. Criticism from either side of this debate seems to focus heavily on a discussion of female characters within The Things They Carried: Mary Ann, Martha, Lemon’s sister, the older woman at the reading, and Linda. Nevertheless, both sides of the debate mention masculinity only briefly when exploring O’Brien’s portrayal of women. While most Vietnam War writing reinforces gender stereotypes, effectively functioning as the process of remasculinization that Susan Jeffords describes in The Remasculinization of America, I will argue that “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” is distinct from this writing, consequently challenging stereotypical discourses of masculinity. I will focus on O’Brien’s primary female character, Mary Ann, in relation to the text as a critique of gender binaries and also as a challenge for a variety of other dualisms.
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