Jeffery W. Fenn (essay date fall 1990)
SOURCE: Fenn, Jeffery W. “Conditioned Response: David Rabe's The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel.” Canadian Review of American Studies 21, no. 2 (fall 1990): 157-72.
[In the following essay, Fenn asserts that The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel exemplifies the defining characteristics of the genre of the Vietnam war drama and places the play within the context of Rabe's Vietnam trilogy.]
David Rabe's “Vietnam Trilogy,” comprising The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummell (1968),...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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