Reading Vietnam Amid the War on Terror

1. Introduction: American Myth, Vietnam, and the Prospect of Repetition
Ty Hawkins

2. Philip Caputo’s Deconstruction of the Warrior-Hero Ideal
Ty Hawkins

3. Michael Herr’s Dispatches and the Allure of Combat
Ty Hawkins

4. The Perversion of Labor in Larry Heinemann’s Vietnam
Ty Hawkins

5. Tim O’Brien’s Search for an Ideal Femininity
Ty Hawkins

6. Community in Bobbie Ann Mason’s War Fiction
Ty Hawkins

Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, History of Military, Cultural Anthropology