Panel: Vietnam Shadows

In this audiovisual recording from Tuesday, March 21, 2000, as part of the 31st Annual UND Writers Conference: “Writing War, Arnold Isaacs, Barbara Sonneborn, John Balaban, and Robert Olen Butler participate in a panel called “Vietnam Shadows.” The panelists discuss the legacy of the Vietnam War, the unrecognized social problems following the war, the social damages of war, generational understanding of the Vietnam war, cultural portrayal of the war, notions of otherness, the Gulf War, the difficulty for veterans to talk about war, and film and literary representation of war. Moderated by Ian Swanson