TY - BOOK ID - 78343719 TI - The wars we took to Vietnam PY - 1996 SN - 0520917529 0585114536 9780520917521 9780585114538 0520204328 0520204336 9780520204331 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 KW - Literature and society KW - War stories, American KW - War poetry, American KW - American Literature KW - English KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Literature KW - Literature and sociology KW - Society and literature KW - Sociology and literature KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, in motion pictures KW - Vietnam Conflict, 1961-1975 KW - Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 KW - Vietnamese War, 1961-1975 KW - English literature KW - Agrarians (Group of writers) KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and the war KW - Motion pictures and the war KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - 82:791.43 KW - 82:791.43 Literatuur en film KW - Literatuur en film KW - History and criticism. KW - Literature and the war. KW - Motion pictures and the war. KW - 20th century KW - Motion pictures and the conflict KW - United States KW - War stories [American ] KW - War poetry [American ] UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78343719 AB - What Americans refer to as the Vietnam War embraces much more than the conflict with North Vietnam. Milton J. Bates considers the other conflicts that Americans brought to that war: the divisions stemming from differences in race, class, sex, generation, and frontier ideology. In exploring the rich vein of writing and film that emerged from the Vietnam War era, he strikingly illuminates how these stories reflect American social crises of the period. Some material examined here is familiar, including the work of Michael Herr, Tim O'Brien, Philip Caputo, Susan Sontag, Francis Ford Coppola, and Oliver Stone. Other material is less well known--Neverlight by Donald Pfarrer and De Mojo Blues by A. R. Flowers, for example. Bates also draws upon an impressive range of secondary readings, from Freud and Marx to Geertz and Jameson. As the products of a culture in conflict, Vietnam memoirs, novels, films, plays, and poems embody a range of political perspectives, not only in their content but also in their structure and rhetoric. In his final chapter Bates outlines a "politico-poetics" of the war story as a genre. Here he gives special attention to our motives--from the deeply personal to the broadly cultural--for telling war stories. ER -