Faction Representation Method of Sexual Assault by the U.S. Forces in the Vietnam War and Its Discourse Value

Abstract

U.S. media and contents based on the Vietnam War have focused mainly on the political aspects of the Cold War era after the Second World War and the post-Cold War era in the 1990s, but little has been said about the frequent U.S. soldiers' sexual assault against Vietnamese women. This paper examines the way the faction literature and movies related to the Vietnam War reproduce sexual violence by the U.S. military and discusses whether it is worth discussing the phenomenon of wartime sexual violence on terms of social science. To this end, I examine the contents reproduced by the style of 'faction' through literature data describing sexual assault by the U.S. military, and explore whether the reproduction method can be discussed politically based on William Timothy O'Brien's experience and perception. In addition, in the conclusion, a practical methodology is presented to convey precious lessons of international pacifism to future generations. As a result, it is emphasized that this genre of faction can present the direction of international efforts to realize true peace with various dynamics that can discourse this issue tinged by a style of social science research with sexual assault-related facts and sensitivity-stimulating fiction. This paper will invite more follow-up studies in that it is a new attempt to explore whether the factional reproduction elements of Vietnam War-related works, which could have been understood mainly by interest, can be analyzed socially and scientifically.