Wars We Took to Vietnam - Cultural Conflict and Storytelling

Informationen zum Autor Milton J. Bates is Professor of English at Marquette University. He is the author of Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self (California! 1985) and the editor of Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects: Wallace Stevens' Commonplace Book (1989) and Opus Posthumous: Poems! Plays! Prose by Wallace Stevens (1989). Klappentext "Previous scholarship has established that American storytellers turned Vietnam into a landscape of American myth. Bates's lucid and judicious study . . . is a valuable addition to the conversation regarding the legacy of Vietnam."-John Hellmann! author of American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam "An absolutely stunning achievement. Milton Bates presents an incisively accurate analysis of the attitudes that shaped and controlled Americans' perceptions during the 1960s and '70s. He fuses literary analysis with historical scholarship to offer a comprehensive study of American thought and writing before! during! and after the war years. This is a book to be read carefully-and savored."-John Clark Pratt! author of The Laotian Fragments Zusammenfassung What Americans refer to as the Vietnam War embraces more than the conflict with North Vietnam. This title considers the other conflicts that Americans brought to that war: the divisions stemming from differences in race, class, sex, generation, and frontier ideology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  Introduction: Wars and Rumors of Wars  I. The Frontier War  2. The Race War  3· The Class War  4· The Sex War  5· The Generation War  6. Toward a Politico-Poetics of the War Story  Notes  Works Cited  Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Milton J. Bates, Bates Milton J.
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.1996
• EAN: 9780520204331
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20433-1
• Pagine: 325
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; USA, Vietnam, History of Ideas, HISTORY / Social History, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000