A discussion of the literature of the war and a study of literary consciousness relative to the larger process of cultural myth-making.

Beidler seeks to analyze memoirs, novels, experimental works of fiction, plays, poems and oral histories about the Vietnamese conflict in relation to the larger

Examines the connections between colonial ideology and contemporary American writing and films concerning the Vietnam experience.

This Concise Companion is a guide to the creative output of the United States in the postwar period, in its diverse energies, shapes and forms. Embraces diversi