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Article: The Wars We Took to Vietnam: Cultural Conflict and Storytelling.
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The Wars We Took to Vietnam: Cultural Conflict and Storytelling. By Milton J. Bates. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. x + 328 pages.
In a wartime review of V. S. Pritchett's In My Good Books (1942), the British novelist Elizabeth Bowen lamented that the experience of the Blitz threatened her literary imagination: "These years rebuff the imagination as much by being fragmentary as by being violent. It is by dislocations, by recurrent checks to his desire for meaning, that the writer is most thrown out. The imagination cannot simply endure events; for it the passive role is impossible. Where it cannot dominate, it is put out of action."(1) The same ...