Background
Doyle, Robert Charles was born on January 20, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Edward James and Arvella Wilhemena (Gaetz) Doyle.
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Voices from Captivity: Interpreteting the American POW Narrative (Modern War Studies (Hardcover)) by Robert C. Doyle (1994-04-04)
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Voices from Captivity: Interpreteting the American POW Narrative (Modern War Studies (Hardcover))
(Popularized by books and films like Andersonville, The Gr...)
Popularized by books and films like Andersonville, The Great Escape, and The Hanoi Hilton, and recounted in innumerable postwar memoirs, the POW story holds a special place in American culture. Robert Doyle's remarkable study shows why it has retained such enormous power to move and instruct us. Long after wartime, memories of captivity haunt former wartime prisoners, their families, and their society-witness the continuing Vietnam MIA-POW controversies-and raise fundamental questions about human nature and survival under inhumane conditions. The prison landscapes have varied dramatically: Indian villages during the Forest Wars; floating hulks during the Revolution and War of 1812; slave bagnios in Algeria and Tripoli; hotels and haciendas during the Mexican War; large rural camps like Andersonville in the South or converted federal armories like Elmira in the North; stalags in Germany and death-ridden tropical camps in the Philippines; frozen jails in North Korea; and the "Hanoi Hilton" and bamboo prisons of Vietnam. But, as Doyle demonstrates, the story remains the same. Doyle shows that, though setting and circumstance may change, POW stories share a common structure and are driven by similar themes. Capture, incarceration, isolation, propaganda, torture, capitulation or resistance, death, spiritual quest, escape, liberation, and repatriation are recurrent key motifs in these narratives. It is precisely these elements, Doyle contends, that have made this genre such a fascinating and enduring literary form. Drawing from a wide array of sources, including official documents, first-person accounts, histories, and personal letters, in addition to folklore and fiction, Doyle illustrates the timelessness of the POW story and shows why it has become central to our understanding of the American experience of war.
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Robert Charles Doyle
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, Pennsylvania State University, 1967; Master of Arts, Pennsylvania State University, 1976; Doctor of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University, 1987.
Career
Substitute teacher, Philadelphia School District, 1972;
bandleader, manager, Buffalo Chipkickers, State College, Pennsylvania, 1973-1977;
owner, manager, Bob Doyle Talent Agency, State College, 1978-1986;
lecturer in American studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1986-1994;
Fulbright junior lecturer, Westfälische Wilhelms University, Münster, Germany, since 1994;
associate professor, U. Strasbourg II, France, 1995-1996. Consultant Philadelphia '76 Inc., 1976, WPSX-television, University Park, 1981, 83. Manuscript reviewer University Press Kansas, Lawrence, 1994.
Session chair Vietnam Mid-Atlantic ACA/PCA, Bowling Green, 1992-1994. Guest lecturer MonashU., Melbourne, Australia, 1994, Vietnam Veterans American, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1992.
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Voices from Captivity: Interpreteting the American POW Narrative (Modern War Studies (Hardcover))
(Popularized by books and films like Andersonville, The Gr...)
- Voices from Captivity: Interpreteting the American POW Narrative (Modern War Studies (Hardcover)) by Robert C. Doyle (1994-04-04)
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Voices from Captivity: Interpreteting the American POW Narrative (Modern War Studies (Hardcover))
Membership
Member of Executive Committee Felding Veterans Trust, State College, 1992-1994. Lieutenant United States Navy, 1967-1971. Member American Studies Association, American Culture/Popular Culture Association, Veterans of Foreign Wars, AFT (member Executive Board local 660 1987-1994).
Connections
Married Beate Theresa Engel, August 23, 1986.
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Roman Catholic