American Literature and the Experience of VietnamUniversity of Georgia Press, 1982 M01 1 - 220 pages Beidler seeks to analyze memoirs, novels, experimental works of fiction, plays, poems and oral histories about the Vietnamese conflict in relation to the larger process of cultural mythmaking. He finds that most of them are concerned with the meaning of the conflict for the American culture as a whole. |
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
CHAPTER 3 | 29 |
CHAPTER 4 | 36 |
In the Middle Range 19701975 | 85 |
CHAPTER 5 | 104 |
The New Literature of Vietnam | 137 |
CHAPTER 6 | 171 |
Conclusion | 193 |
Notes | 203 |
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