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Gotera, Vicente F. "Radical visions: Poetry by Vietnam Veterans," Indiana University, January 1991. Advisor: James H. Justus (12, 2, 23)
Poetry written by Vietnam veterans underlines the failure of traditional American myths (e.g., virgin Land, Machine in the Garden, Regeneration Through violence, the American Adam) to help Americans understand the war and its aftermath. these poets have had to forgo a “radical Vision” - i.e., both unprecedented as well as rooted- in order to re-view the war, to form new mythic perceptions. The poetry of Vietnam veterans, therefore, both registers an advance in the esthetics and poetics of war literature as well as offers a national (and personal) opportunity for therapy, social adjustment, and the reconception of a national evil and guilt.
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