A revealing look at how many of the new generation of southern writers link southern cultural heritage and the American experience in Vietnam Much recent fiction from the American South has spotlighted the American ordeal in Vietnam, and a generation of southern writers has been imaginatively preoccupied with ironic parallels that rise out of the Vietnam experience and their own region"s tragic past. This stimulating study of American cultural history discovers the powerful and intriguing links. It shows how profoundly the Vietnam experience has penetrated the imaginations of some of America"s most acclaimed writers and how their compulsive sense of southern history unites their vision with the history of the war in Vietnam. Set against the backdrop of their homeland, Vietnam reveals striking parallels. Works by a profusion of southern writers have disclosed this astonishing connection to their heritage. James Webb, Bobbie Ann Mason, Jayne Anne Phillips, Clyde Edgerton, Madison...