{"product_id":"the-wars-we-took-to-milton-j-bates-9780520204331","title":"The Wars We Took to Vietnam","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome 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--\u003ci\u003eNeverlight\u003c\/i\u003e by Donald Pfarrer and \u003ci\u003eDe Mojo Blues\u003c\/i\u003e by A. R. Flowers, for example. Bates also draws upon an impressive range of secondary readings, from Freud and Marx to Geertz and Jameson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Milton J. Bates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520204336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520204331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 325\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.05w x 0.84d","brand":"Milton J. Bates","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48064995361023,"sku":"9780520204331","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_06796326-fc9e-435c-814f-c47dd1c7a8ad.jpg?v=1768672438","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-wars-we-took-to-milton-j-bates-9780520204331","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}