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A revealing look at how the new generation of southern writers links southern cultural heritage and the American experience in Vietnam

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title:Vietnam and the Southern Imagination
author:Gilman, Owen W.
publisher:University Press of Mississippi
isbn10 | asin:0878055916
print isbn13:9780878055913
ebook isbn13:9780585208558
language:English
subjectVietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Literature and the conflict, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Literature and the war, American literature--Southern States--History and criticism, American literature--20th century--History and criticism, War s
publication date:1992
lcc:PS228.V5G55 1992eb
ddc:813/.5409358
subject:Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Literature and the conflict, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Literature and the war, American literature--Southern States--History and criticism, American literature--20th century--History and criticism, War s
Page iii
Vietnam and the Southern Imagination
by
Owen W. Gilman, Jr
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI
Jackson & London
Page iv
The University Press of Mississippi thanks the following copyright holders for granting permission to reprint their material.
"Going, 1960-1970." Reprinted from Paper Boy, by David Huddle by permission of the University of Pittsburg Press and David Huddle. by David Huddle; "Nerves," ''Work," "The Air Rifle," "Croquet," and "Icicle." Reprinted from Stopping by Home, copyright 1988 by David Huddle, by permission of Gibbs M. Smith, Inc. and David Huddle; "Nearing the End of a Century." Reprinted from After the Noise of Saigon, by Walter McDonald (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988). Copyright 1988 by Walter McDonald; "Caliban in Blue" and "Interview with a Guy Named Fawkes, U.S. Army." Reprinted from Caliban in Blue and Other Works, by permission of Texas Tech University Press, copyright 1976 by Walter McDonald; "Settling the Plains," "The Songs We Fought For," and "The Middle Years." From Night Landings by Walter McDonald. Copyright 1989 by Walter McDonald. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers; "Tu Do Street," "Communique," "Report from the Skulls Diorama," "Dui Boi, Dust of Life," and "Facing It." Reprinted from Dien Cai Dau, copyright 1988 by Yusef Komunyakaa, Wesleyan University Press by permission of University Press of New England; "The Firebombing." Reprinted from James Dickey Poems 1957-1967, copyright by James Dickey, Wesleyan University Press by permission of University Press of New England; "Success is counted sweetest." Reprinted from Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, copyright 1961 by Little, Brown and Company; "To the Lacedomonians" and "Ode to the Confederate Dead." Reprinted from Poems (Denver: Swallow Paperbooks, 1961), copyright 1960 by Allen Tate, by permission of Helen H. Tate and Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (Collected Poems, 1919-1976, copyright 1989); Small sections of my chapter "Regenerative Violence: Or, Grab Your Saber, Ray," were originally developed for another essay, "Barry Hannah." This material is reprinted, as revised and expanded, by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT, from Southern Writers of the Second Renascence-the Fiction, edited by Joseph M. Flora and Robert Bain, copyright 1992 by Greenwood Press.
Copyright 1992 by the University Press of Mississippi
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
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The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gilman, Owen W.
Vietnam and the Southern Imagination / Owen W. Gilman, Jr.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN o-87805-591-6 (alk. paper)
1. Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Literature and the conflict. 2. United States-History
Civil War, 1861-1865-Literature and the war. 3. American literature-Southern States-History
and criticism. 4. American literature-20th century-History and criticism. 5. War stories,
American-History and criticism. 6. War poetry, American-History and criticism. 7. Southern
States in literature. I. Title.
PS228.V5G55 1992
813'.5409358-dc20 92-18324
CIP
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data available
Page v
For
Joseph M. Flora,
Carolina's Finest,
and for
Mary
Page vii
Picture 2
What shall we say who have knowledge
Carried to the heart?
Allen Tate
"Ode to the Confederate Dead"
Page ix
Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
1. The Vietnam War in Southern Time
3
2. Vietnam and the Warrior South
22
3. In Which Country?
45
4. Vietnam and the Flight of Time
61
5. Regenerative Violence; or, Grab Your Saber, Ray
77
6. Civil War Redux: Brotherhood or Fratricide?
94
7. Back to Alabama, Heart of Dixie
117
8. The Southern Poet's Vietnam
138
9. You Must Go Home Again, but What is Home?
158
10. Vietnam in the South: Deliverance
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