Background
Bates, Milton J. was born on June 4, 1945 in Warrensburg, Missouri, United States. Son of Milton F. and Helen (Harter) Bates.
( What Americans refer to as the Vietnam War embraces muc...)
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.
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Bates, Milton J. was born on June 4, 1945 in Warrensburg, Missouri, United States. Son of Milton F. and Helen (Harter) Bates.
Bachelor, St. Saint Louis University, 1968; Master of Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1972; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1977.
Assistant professor Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1975-1981. Assistant professor English Marquette University, Milwaukee, 1981-1986, associate professor English, 1986-1991, professor English, since 1991. Research fellow American Council Learned Societies, 1980, 86, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1985, Guggenheim Foundation, 1989.
Fulbright lecturer, China, 2000, Spain, 2006.
( What Americans refer to as the Vietnam War embraces muc...)
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Sergeant United States Army, 1969-1971, Vietnam. Member Modern Language Association (Executive Committee 20th Century American literature, 1986-1990), Wallace StevensSoc. (advisory board since 1990), Vietnam Veterans American, Sierra Club.
Married Elizabeth J. Kwapy, May 6, 1972. Children: Jeremy A., Elizabeth S.