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Vietnam and the Southern Imagination

Owen W. Gilman

出版	Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1992
ISBN	16170353439781617035340
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7woBu4dmvqkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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This absorbing study of cultural echoes that have charged the creative imaginations of fifteen southern writers unites shades of the southern past with the reality of the American present. Both periods have evinced an alarming impulse toward violence. In this context James Dickey's Deliverance, although not a novel about Vietnam, becomes a paradigm of force and southern violence. It serves to reveal the modern southern storyteller's imaginative vision of violence both past and present. Whether writing of soldiers at war or of the tumult at home, whether expressing the persisting anxiety about race relations or sustaining the community through story-telling, southern writers have found in Vietnam a weirdly revelatory mirror of their own cultural heritage.