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A second unique feature of "In Pharaoh's Army" is Wolff's use of "parrhesia" as a rhetorical device that governs the narrative. I mean "parrhesia" not in the classical Greek sense of "artless speaking," "bold speaking," or "speaking truth to power," but in the more specialized sense developed by Michel Foucault, as "disarming public confession ...
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During the American Civil War, a Union Army Captain (Chris Cooper) leads his ragtag cavalry troop up a misty creek to a remote farm to steal enemy livestock and supplies. The farm is owned by Sarah Anders (Patricia Clarkson), whose husband is away fighting for the Confederate Army, and her young son. When an accident forces the patrol to stay, the captain and Sarah find they have more in ...
Sep 1, 2010 · In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War. In Pharaoh's Army. : Tobias Wolff. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 1, 2010 - Biography & Autobiography - 240 pages. Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same ...
Pharaoh's Army. Union soldiers descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until their wounds are healed. While the weary Union captain falls for the mother of the family, her son plots revenge on the dirty, double-dealing Yankees. 153 IMDb 6.5 1 h 26 min 1996. X-Ray PG-13. Drama · Western · Eerie · Emotional. Freevee ...
Jan 1, 1995 · Paperback – January 1, 1995. by Tobias Wolff (Author) 4.4 466 ratings. See all formats and editions. In Pharaoh's Army is Tobias Wolff's unflinching account of his tour in Vietnam, his tangled journey there and back. Using his old wiles and talents, he passes through boot camp, trains as a paratrooper, volunteers for the Special Forces ...
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Black Fox: Good Men and Bad. During the American Civil War, a Union Army captain leads his rag-tag cavalry troop up a misty creek to a remote farm to appropriate enemy (Confederate) livestock. The ...
Jan 1, 1994 · Tobias Wolff's "In Pharaoh's Army" is one of these. Another, much earlier, is Tim O'Brien's "If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home." Wolff's memoir follows chronology, but events are grouped in chapters that develop provocative themes. For me, two features of "In Pharaoh's Army" distinguish it from other Vietnam War memoirs.
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