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sociopath?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059#t=2620.59,2624.223"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059/transcript/27925/annotation/797","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Possibly, then, what we should do is begin a new mission,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059#t=2625.35,2629.74"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059/transcript/27925/annotation/798","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of building within our own shores","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059#t=2629.74,2632.12"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059/transcript/27925/annotation/799","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and borders that shining city on the hill envisioned","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059#t=2632.12,2636.85"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059/transcript/27925/annotation/800","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"by the men and women who disembarked from the pilgrim ships","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059#t=2636.85,2641.33"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059/transcript/27925/annotation/801","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"onto a vast continent so beautifully described","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059#t=2641.33,2645.21"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059/transcript/27925/annotation/802","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"by F. Scott Fitzgerald as \"one commensurate","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059#t=2645.21,2648.78"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059/transcript/27925/annotation/803","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with man's capacity for wonder.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059#t=2648.78,2651.497"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059/transcript/27925/annotation/804","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's a sense of wonder and of dream we seem to have lost.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059#t=2652.93,2657.93"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059/transcript/27925/annotation/805","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But I suggest that one way to recapture it","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059#t=2659.266,2662.026"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059/transcript/27925/annotation/806","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is to look through the eyes of Vietnam literature","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059#t=2662.026,2666.326"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059/transcript/27925/annotation/807","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at our long national (indistinct).","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059#t=2666.326,2669.569"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059/transcript/27925/annotation/808","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059#t=2669.569,2670.402"},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059/transcript/27925/annotation/809","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"(audience applauds)","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059#t=2671.246,2674.329"}]},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059/transcript/27925","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["English [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059/transcript/27925/annotation/810","type":"Annotation","motivation":"subtitling","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/027/925/original/AV203906_How_the_Vietnam_War_Changed_American_Literature_a.vtt?1622564754","format":"text/vtt","language":"en"},"target":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/027/925/original/AV203906_How_the_Vietnam_War_Changed_American_Literature_a.vtt?1622564754"}]},{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059/transcript/27926","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["AV203906_How_the_Vietnam_War_Changed_American_Literature_a.txt [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059/transcript/27926/annotation/811","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"- 25 years ago, the first brigade of American combat troops landed at Da Nang and what was then the obscure Republic of Vietnam. I was among those 3,500 Marines, and I have described that event in \"A Rumor of War.\" I can't say that the 16 months I fought in Vietnam made me a writer. I had attempted my first short story at 15, and by age 21, just before I went into uniform, I had collected an impressive number of rejection slips. But the war made an indelible mark on my imagination. The last book I've written, \"Indian Country,\" is about Vietnam's aftermath. A part of another, \"DelCorso's Gallery,\" is about the set, rather, in Saigon in the closing weeks of the war, and the third, \"Horn of Africa,\" though it takes place in Ethiopia, has Vietnam as its psychological landscape. The war seems to be an obsession. To this day when I sit down to write anything, it intrudes in my thoughts and memories, coloring almost every word I put on the page. It is a fiercely possessive mistress who will not let me go, embracing me with torments both agonizing and exquisite, beside which the pains and pleasures of ordinary life seem pale and dull. It depresses me sometimes because I would like nothing better than to forget it and to write, say, a love story. I may one of these days. But I don't doubt that even in a tale of everyday life and emotions, there would be an echo of guns, the whispers of men who have been ghosts this past quarter of century, their names among the nearly 60,000 chiseled on that black granite wall in Washington. But of course, I'm not here tonight to discuss the effect the war had on me but on contemporary American literature, which reflects its impact on our culture and society as a whole. Some of the points I'll make, however, may explain the tenacity of its grip on me, on other writers who fought in it, on those who did not, on us all. That is the focus of the seminar I teach at the University of Northern Iowa, where I'm on a one-year appointment as the Meryl Norton Hearst professor. I designed this seminar which bears the rather cumbersome title of The Influence of the Vietnam Era on American Literature. And tonight, I would like to offer you a revised and expanded version of the opening lecture I give to my students. By explaining what I teach, and more importantly why, I hope to sketch a picture of the war's continuing legacy. We study 11 books. Three, Michael Herr's memoir of his tour as a war correspondent, \"Dispatches,\" and the novels \"Going After Cacciato\" by Tim O'Brien and \"The 13th Valley\" by Joseph Del Vecchio are set wholly in Vietnam and describe the war from various imaginative angles and with different narrative strategies. \"Meditations in Green\" by Stephen Wright, an exceptionally inventive novel, looks at the war and the entropy it created in America. Three other novels, Larry Heinemann's \"Paco's Story,\" Bobbie Ann Mason's \"In Country,\" and \"Machine Dreams\" by Jayne Anne Phillips, have purely domestic settings and deal with the war's social and psychological aftermath. Robert Stones \"Dog Soldiers\" opens in Saigon in the early 70s but quickly moves from there to California, brilliantly evoking the moral devastation wrought by Vietnam. Thomas Sanchez's \"Rabbit Boss,\" an epic historical novel depicting the destruction of the California Indian tribe between 1850 and 1950, traces the roots of our involvement in Southeast Asia to our violent and rapacious frontier heritage. Finally, Thomas McGuane's \"Ninety-Two in the Shade,\" though it is not even tangentially about Vietnam, is, in my view, a novel whose style, tone, and death-haunted themes were shaped by the turmoil and disruptions of the war years. Extensive as this list is, it is far from adequate. I can think of at least 11 other literary works I would have liked to have included, but it would have been impossible to cover them all in a single term. I define the Vietnam era as the period between the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1963 and the fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese forces in April 1975. Those two terrible events, the murder of a president who would become a virtual demigod and the first defeat America ever suffered in war, bracketed a prolonged national nightmare during which the country passed from the glamor and confidence of Kennedy's new frontier into a mood of self doubt and confusion that President Carter, upon taking office in our bicentennial year, described as \"a profound malaise.\" My choice of the words Vietnam era as opposed to Vietnam War is quite deliberate. I wish in using that phrase to emphasize that the war was not an isolated event occurring 10,000 miles from our shores and affecting only combatants and their immediate families but was rather the central event of the late 60s and early 70s. In terms of the effect it had on our collective self image, it was more traumatic than the Great Depression. In terms of the way it fragmented our society, it was our most divisive experience since the Civil War, hawks pitted against doves, young against old, black against white. The war in the distant rice paddies and jungles created a second front in America. Its shattering violence affected almost every aspect of our private and public lives. It turned our political debates into bitter irreconcilable disputes between pro warriors and anti warriors, made battlegrounds of our campuses and cities, eroded and indeed almost destroyed our trust in our national leaders, helped to spread an epidemic of drug use, a plague that's with us still, and brought to the nonviolent civil rights movement the threat of the racial civil war as angry black veterans returning to the same bigotry and poverty they had left behind became willing recruits for Black Panther urban guerrillas like Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver. But in a much broader sense, Vietnam's most ruinous consequence was to topple or severely damaged the temples of our deeply held beliefs, our most cherished myths, even while our living idols like Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were falling to assassins' bullets. Among the myths that crumbled was the conviction that America had a special mission to bring democracy and prosperity to all the peoples of the world, to realize on a global scale the pilgrims' vision of building a shining city on the hill. Another article of our national faith was the image we had of ourselves as a people fundamentally good, of our country as the last best hope on Earth. God had shed his grace on America, and whatever it did could not be anything but right. Yet another tenet was the faith in our know how and technology to solve any problem, whether it was to eradicate poverty or win a war. Our skill and industrial development, after all, had transformed the continental wilderness into the richest, mightiest nation in history. But as the war in Vietnam ground on year after bloody and senseless year, we saw, literally saw on our TV screens every night our missionary ideal exposed as a brutal and naked will to power. Became difficult to understate the case to look upon ourselves as inherently virtuous while our planes drop napalm on straw villages and our boys, the decent American boys from the farms and towns, reflections of ourselves, massacred civilians in places like Mỹ Lai. And what faith could we put in our technology when we watched it become a vast and ultimately ineffective engine of raw destruction? Carpet bombing, defoliation, free fire zones. This is not to say that we acquired evil natures in Vietnam, that we caught some sort of moral yellow fever in that country's humid and alien climate. Even a casual reading of our conduct against the Indians reveals that there has always been a dark side to our national character, an anarchic outlaw lurking within the missionary's heart. The obverse of James Fenimore Cooper's noble savage was the frontier renegade who found in the wilderness the license to do whatever he chose. When the Native Americans resisted our westward march and refused to accept our visions of civilization, we annihilated them; it was as simple and brutal as that. But the crimes we committed were concealed behind a dense curtain of mythology, the notion of Manifest Destiny, which was the conviction that we had a divinely ordained errand to conquer the wilderness and its heathen inhabitants in the name of progress. The myth was enshrined as historical law by Frederick Jackson Turner in his famous frontier thesis. America's geographical movement to the Pacific was attended by a social movement upward, from wilderness to city and all the stages in between. scholars of Vietnam have suggested that the same impulse thrust us across the Pacific into Southeast Asia, where we encountered a land that was largely wilderness, and saw on what we assumed was the blank page of the Asian jungles a chance to write a new chapter in our saga of nation building. \"There was nothing in Vietnam,\" wrote Michael Herr in \"Dispatches,\" \"that had not been in America, coiled up and waiting.\" But after years of seeing no progress of any kind, we seem to forget if we ever really knew for what reason we were shedding so much blood and wreaking so much destruction. The curtain of myth was stripped away, and we saw our outlaw's face with a terrifying clarity. We begin to seriously question, perhaps for the first time in our history, just what kind of people we were, to wonder not without dread if God had withdrawn His grace from us. In \"Dog Soldiers,\" Robert Stone captures this mood with remarkable economy. One of the main characters, Converse, a burned out war correspondent turned to heroin smuggler, says to his partner, ex Marine Ray Hicks, that \"Vietnam is the place where everyone finds out who he is.\" \"Yeah,\" Hicks replies, \"what a bummer for the gooks.\" And Converse, expanding on his first remark, answers, \"You can't blame us too much. We didn't know who we were till we got here. We thought we were something else.\" Paul Fussell, in his examination of the impact of World War I on European fought and culture, compared the trench lines of the western front to an historical front fault line, dividing forever the Victorian world from the modern, the Victorian mind from the modern mind. A similar idea is expressed about Vietnam in America by Ohio University professor John Hellmann, author of \"American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam,\" a study of the war's literature. \"Vietnam,\" he says, \"was an experience that severely called into question American myth. We entered Vietnam with expectations that a distinctly American story would unfold. When instead the story turned out differently than expected, the larger story of America itself, who we thought we were and what we thought our mission was, became the subject of an intense dispute. On the deepest level,\" Hellmann concludes, \"the legacy of Vietnam is the disruption of our story, our explanation of the past and vision of the future.\" I know of no novel that more clearly and dramatically illustrates Hellmann's point than Thomas Sanchez's \"Rabbit Boss,\" which is an anti-war novel at the same time that is a kind of anti Western. It describes our westward expansion from the point of view of the Indians who were its victims, and in their eyes, our passage from Plymouth Rock to the Pacific was a catastrophe as devastating to them as the Holocaust was to the Jews of Europe. \"Rabbit Boss\" suggests that our frontier myth of Manifest Destiny was never anything but a self-serving mask for greed, conquest, and exploitation. \"Perhaps,\" Sanchez seems to be telling us, \"we ought to abandon the idea of a national mission altogether.\" His novel and Stone's were published in 1973, the year the last American troops are withdrawn from Vietnam and the Watergate scandal broke into the news, a bad time. They may partly account for the bleak visions these books give us. Now, I'm not here tonight to persuade you that those visions are accurate nor, on the other hand, to condemn them as distortions. I am here to convince you as I tried to convince the students in my seminar that they are visions which bear your serious attention. They represent radical departures in American literature while they remain deeply rooted in our oldest literary traditions. Stone's hero, Ray Hicks, for example, can be viewed as an alienated hawkeye, a lone American hero who, bereft of a valid mission to engage his skills and energies, becomes a heroin-smuggling renegade. Sanchez's mirror image western with the Indians as the good guys and the Cowboys as the bad could not have been written in 1953 or 1963 because it would have been almost inconceivable in those smug years, for even an iconoclastic writer to present his culture's fundamental myth as a hollow and murderous sham. I included them in my seminar along with the other non-war novels to show that much of the literature created by the men and women whose imaginations were touched by the fires of the Vietnam era are related in their themes, outlooks, characters, and even styles to those about the war itself. I'd like to offer now a few examples without, I hope, becoming tedious or pedantic or boring you with allusions to books you don't have in your laps at the moment. Sanchez's vision of our actual frontier is certainly reflected in the visions of Vietnam's metaphorical frontier, as they are offered by Herr's \"Dispatches\" and Joseph Del Vecchio's \"The 13th Valley\" where the journey westward becomes more like Mr. Kurtz's journey in \"The Heart of Darkness.\" In several passages, Herr wonders if our zeal to destroy the Vietcong, no matter what the moral or physical costs might not have begun with those very pilgrims who sought to build their shining city on the hill. \"Might as well say that Vietnam was where the Trail of Tears was headed all along,\" Herr writes, referring to the forced eviction of the Cherokee Indians from the southeast of Oklahoma. Then, taking the thought to the very origins of our history, he goes on to say, \"Might as well lay it on the proto-Gringos who found the New England woods too raw and empty for their peace and filled them up with their own imported devils.\" The Indians became the embodiment of those imported demons, and in Vietnam, the Vietcong became the new Indians. In \"The 13th Valley,\" the book gets its title from an untouched enemy stronghold deep in the jungles, a literal as well as figurative frontier. A commanding officer exhorts his men to \"go in there and hurt those little people\" and tells the American troopers that their mission is \"to take the world as we find it and make it like we want it,\" which summarizes our frontier view of the wilderness and what was to be done with it, or perhaps I should say to it. A theme that runs through all of these books is a moral ambiguity, even of moral breakdown in an environment where most external guides to proper conduct have been obliterated. Bobbie Ann Mason's \"In Country\" is a touching portrayal Samantha Hughes, a 17-year-old small town girl trying to mend a rupture in her past. Her father was killed in Vietnam before she was born. Samantha becomes obsessed with learning about him in the war but is repelled when she discovers he killed and burned without apparently any remorse. If I could have arranged a meeting of fictional characters, I would have introduced Samantha to some of the characters in \"The 13th Valley\" or in \"Going After Cacciato.\" They might have explained why her father acted the way he did. \"They did not know the simple things,\" O'Brien writes of Cacciato's platoon, \"a sense of victory or satisfaction or necessary sacrifice.\" He goes on in a long and moving passage to describe all the things the men didn't know, concluding they did not know good from evil. The protagonist of Del Vecchio's novel, Private Chelini, an untested soldier whom his buddies call Cherry, discovers that an ignorance of good and evil is the only way to survive in the jungle. In a world War II novel by a Mailer, a James Jones or an Irwin Shaw, a character like Chelini would attain his manhood in battle. But his rite of passage takes a different, darker turn in Vietnam. Chelini achieves a complete and terrifying communion with the jungle by becoming as morally neutral as it is, beyond the pole of common human standards of conduct and even of feeling. Throughout the book his buddies chant what was the grunt's mantra in Vietnam, \"Don't mean nothing, don't mean a thing.\" That studied nihilism was the warrior's way of facing a death he knew would be senseless, but in Chelini, it is not studied, not opposed. When the novel ends, he is at a memorial service for his fallen comrades. In the midst of it, he starts to say, \"Fuck it, don't mean.\" His lieutenant cuts him off, telling him, \"Don't say it, soldier,\" because the officer knows that, for Chelini, it truly does not mean anything. You could say that Chelini, in his moral indifference, has made a complete penetration of nature, and the conflict between nature and technology is one that turns up time and again in novels from the era. Most, if not all, reflect a disillusionment, even a disgust, with the world of machines. In Jane Anne Phillips' \"Machine Dreams,\" an elegiac chronicle of a West Virginia family from Depression days to Vietnam, the two main male characters, Mitch Hampson and his son Billy, build their lives around machines, indeed, literally dream about them. But machines failed and betrayed 'em in the end. Billy Hampson is killed in Vietnam when his helicopter, the very symbol of the American effort in Indochina, is shot down. When I read that passage in her novel, I cannot help but think of a more lurid one than \"Meditations in Green.\" The protagonist, Specialist 4th Class James Griffin, takes part in a patrol to find a downed American chopper. As Griffin hacks through the bush, he begins to see the jungle as a kind of quote unquote \"green machine in measurably more powerful and enduring than the ones man builds.\" His quest ends when he finds the helicopter, the crew hanging from the rotor blades like rustlers from the trees of the Old West, and he describes body fluids black as motor oil, dripping from the mountain to the jungle floor, a macabre image capturing the ultimate impotence of technology. Half of \"Meditations in Green\" is set in a nameless American city, which, in Wright's portrayal, has been as obliterated by the zeitgeist in the Vietnam era as the villages of Vietnam or by American napalm. His picture of social breakdown, of things gone wrong, turned inside out and upside down, are as scarifying is Thomas Pynchon's in \"Tropic Visions.\" And Pynchon, I would submit, was another major writer influenced by the times. The sense of breakdown is pervasive in Miss Phillips' novel as well. It portrays the dissolution of the Hampson family as a microcosm of the disruptions America suffered as a society, as a nation. Her heroine, Danner Hampson, reflecting upon her brother's death in Vietnam, refers to her estranged parents as \"my country, my divided country.\" And Thomas McGuane seems to sardonically echo Danner's lament for her divided land when he begins \"Ninety-Two In The Shade\" with the statement, \"Nobody knows from sea to shining sea why we are having all this trouble with our republic.\" The war in Vietnam was a new kind of war that demanded new modes of literary expression for those who sought to interpret it. There is no more stunning example of that than \"Going after Cacciato,\" a seamless weaving of fact and fantasy of dream and reality. It tells the story of the pursuit of a deserter, Private Cacciato, across Asia to Paris by a squad from his platoon. In alternating passages, O'Brien describes Cacciato's flight and the quote unquote \"real histories of the men chasing him.\" We are well into the book when we find that the pursuit and adventure is taking place in the mind and imagination of one of those men, a soldier named Paul Berlin. O'Brien's achievement is to dissolve the conventional barricades between the actual and imagined and to turn his war novel on its head by making Berlin's fantasies of escape an overarching vision of peace. A new language with sources in earlier literary tongues also came out of the Vietnam era. Here in these two passages, we can hear echoes of Kerouac and \"The Beats.\" This is Michael Herr describing his fascination with the helicopter. \"In my mind, it was the sexiest thing going, saver, destroyer, provider, waster, right hand, left hand, nimble, fluent, canny and human, hot steel, grease, jungle-saturated canvas webbing, sweat cooling and warming up again, cassette rock and roll in one ear and door-gun fire in the other, fuel, heat, vitality, and death, death itself hardly an intruder.\" And this is Larry Heinemann writing about the wipe out of an American rifle company except for one survivor in \"Paco's Story\": Oh, we dissolved all right, everybody but Paco, but our screams burst through the ozone, burst through the rags and tatters and cafe-curtain-looking aurora borealis and so forth and suchlike, clean as a whistle, clean as a new car, unfucked with and frequency perfect out in God's everlasting cosmos. And we're pushing up daisies for half a handful of millennia. We're all pushing up daisies, James, until we're powder finer than talc, finer than fine, as smooth and hollow is an old salt lick. But that blood curdling scream is rattling all over God's ever-loving creation like a BB in a boxcar, only louder. This tendency to employ distortion and exaggerated language borrowing not only from \"The Beats\" but from surrealism. The war got pretty surrealistic after all, can be found in contemporary writers who never got closer to Vietnam than their TV screen. McGuane's \"Ninety-Two In The Shade\" is full of elaborate, almost hallucinatory prose, not unlike Herr's and Heinemann's, as in this resonant passage depicting the emptiness of his troubled country: In such a mood, Skelton was Starkweather howled at by his girlfriend's parents for using their car, and for being a garbage man in Lincoln, Nebraska, where teenagers learn the Australian crawl at sun-drenched, cretinoid country clubs, where even wage slaves burn up the Cornhuskers Highway and Polyglas radial tires, the American Plains in a blue rear-view mirror, and slender green traffic islands penetrating the steppes and old, treeless, buffalo-haunted dreamland of a vacant republic.\" Well, if I haven't made my point yet, I'm not going to. What I've been trying to do in the seminar and here tonight is tear down what I consider to be an artificial separation between Vietnam War literature and other contemporary write. There is a tendency today in universities and the publishing industry, as well as among booksellers, critics, and the reading public at large to overly categorize and thus marginalize a great deal of the literature written by young and even middle-aged authors. There are exceptions, of course, like Pynchon and John Irving, but for the most part, today's literary mainstream continues to be the waterway of the grand old sailors of the past, Mailer and Bellow and Styron and Doctorow. Now and then, a new mariner is allowed in, provided he or she writes a comforting and elegant tale about an old Confederate widow or an accidental tourist. Those who have written about the war, however, are seen is navigating some kind of tributary winding off through treacherous rapids into an emotional and psychological heart of darkness where only the most intrepid readers dare go. College English departments offer courses in black lit, in feminist lit, so I suppose it's only natural that their curriculum has a place for Vietnam lit, as if it were a narrow literary specialty. Bookstores, especially the big chains like Walden's and Dalton's have racks devoted to Vietnam, in which the serious fiction of the war is promiscuously lumped with the worst sort of bare-chested macho pulp fiction. Critics in the publishing industry, though both have been admirable, in their efforts to print and review Vietnam War writing, classify it as a genre or a sub genre, reinforcing the impression in the public's mind that this literature is slightly foreign to the body of our national literature, unlike war novels of the past, \"The Naked and the Dead\" and \"Farewell to Arms\" or \"From Here to Eternity,\" to cite three prominent examples. I have also discovered in these patrols through the literary jungles a tendency on the part of some critics and heads of creative writing schools, not this one, of course, to question the artistic legitimacy of most Vietnam literature. The books in this view are important for their informational value, they tell us things about the war journalism cannot, but not so much for their art. They are seen more as historical than as literary documents. The very legitimacy of Vietnam as a topic for literature is sometimes doubted. Last year, an acquaintance of mine who is a Vietnam veteran as well as a fine poet and a teacher of creative writing at an Ivy League university, was told by the chairman of his department that he had been granted tenure at last. Afterward, the chairman took him aside and expressed the hope that his work would now move beyond Vietnam. The poet replied that he had as much right to devote his life and career to writing about the war as John Updike does to writing about suburban adultery. Tim O'Brien, recently interviewed about his new book, \"The Things They Carry,\" was asked why, at 43, he continues to write about Vietnam. O'Brien pointed out that the war is as much his métier as the sea was Joseph Conrad's. \"Did anybody tell Conrad to stop writing about boats?\" O'Brien asked. He might have gone further and pointed out that he is not a war novelist, nor is Del Vecchio, nor is Herr because Vietnam was much more than just a war. They are the recorders and interpreters of an experience that shook the very foundations of this society, which might explain why it continues to hold their imaginations, why they keep writing about it. It's very curious how such an important body of work is often overlooked or dismissed by people who are supposed to know better. I'm thinking of a literary dispute which Tom Wolfe, who is not to be confused with Thomas Wolfe in any sense of the term, and Robert Tower, head of the creative writing program at Columbia University, have waged in recent months in the pages of \"Harper's\" and the \"New York Times\" book review. Now debates of this nature are as interesting to the general lover of letters as the arguments of medieval theologians about how many angels can stand on the head of a pin, so I will spare you the boring details. In sum, the argument has been about the condition of modern American writing, which Mr. Wolfe says \"is deplorable because modern writers have abandoned big, sprawling, realistic novels for stuffy little slices of life.\" Mr. Tower has responded that Mr. Wolfe is, in effect, \"all wet.\" What I found interesting, in fact remarkable, was that only two of the novelists I teach were even mentioned, Bobbie Ann Mason and Robert Stone. In all of those thousands of words, just those two. And Wolfe mentioned Stone only to dismiss him as \"antiquated,\" although Robert Stone is six years younger than Tom Wolfe. \"And why,\" I wondered, \"had neither Tower nor Wolfe mentioned Del Vecchio's 'The 13th Valley,' and impressive example of a big realistic novel if there ever was one, a book several literary scholars have further described as a tragic epic in the mode of 'Moby Dick'?\" Why was there no mention of the innovative \"Going After Cacciato\" or the masterful \"Rabbit Boss\"? I have to supply my own answer or, rather, supposition. I think that Vietnam remains in the minds of most Americans in historical admiration. Consequently, those who write about it are regarded as chroniclers of an exotic, bizarre experience that no longer has the power to affect our collective consciousness. I think most Americans consider Vietnam a closed chapter and the novels about it as imaginative retrospectives, nothing more or less. But the problem in perception goes deeper than that and is by no means confined only to so-called war novelists. Let's face it. Most of the writers formed by that period are not household names in the sense that a Mailer is or a Faulkner was during his day. Novelists like Stone and Sanchez, in my opinion, oughta be, but they're not because the incredible and disturbing events of those times compelled them to look at their culture and society in a new way, and the visions they and others came away with are not visions which the public cares to look at. The image Americans saw of themselves in Vietnam was so repulsive and unsettling that they have little desire to look at its face again, preferring, instead, the charming entertainments about the old Confederate widows or Philip Roth's latest sexual indiscretions or the trashy thrills churned out ad nauseum ad infinitum by Stephen King, if, that is, they take their eyes away from \"The Oprah Winfrey Show\" long enough to look at a book. Far from being a tributary to literature of the Vietnam era is actually at the head of the mainstream, plowing new channels into unexplored literary territory. Wright's \"Meditations in Green,\" like Cacciato, is a masterpiece of experimentation, as daring as anything attempted by writers of his or any other generation. Out of a wreckage of the war and their own psyches, Wright and O'Brien have created not only new ways of looking at Vietnam and at ourselves but new ways of looking at the nature of reality. Novelists like Stone and Del Vecchio show how classical literary forms can be successfully adapted to new experiences while Sanchez has demonstrated of how a novel explaining our past can illuminate our present and, if anyone cares to look, shine a light into the future. But to go beyond these purely literary concerns, these stories have a social and moral value, though some of their authors would deny that literature today can have any social or moral value. If the Vietnam War was a kind of cultural earthquake that brought down our sacred myths or severely damaged them, then we ought to turn to the testaments of those who were at the epicenter, whether physically or just imaginatively. They who have witnessed and described the loss of our myths can show us how and where to find new ones, how to restore those that were damaged but not lost. It is a necessary quest, for myths are not fables or lies. They are rather, in Mark Schorer's words, \"the controlling images that give meaning to the facts of ordinary life, the sacred truths by which a culture defines itself.\" Without the myths, our daily lives will lose meaning with unforeseen but I am sure disagreeable consequences. Dr. Thomas Myers, author of \"Walking Point,\" a critical review of Vietnam War literature, ponders if a failure to confront the history we wrote on the page of Vietnam with napalm, chemical sprays, and the blood of our warriors will ensure a dissolution of our society, create a national psychosis. Vietnam and its era are not finished chapters. We feel and see its repercussions today, 15 years after the last American helicopter lifted off the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon. One of the characters in \"Dogs Soldiers\" in a howl of angry despair decries America in the early 70s as quote unquote \"the land of dope and murder.\" Reading the headlines or looking at the TV news today, I see little reason to refute that description, not with drug gangs waging turf wars within earshot of the White House. The main ghosts of a past we have yet to integrate into our consciousness come back to haunt us in nightmarish ways. Last year, I wrote a story for \"Esquire\" magazine about Patrick Edward Purdy, the young killer who donned a set of camouflage fatigues and fired an AK-47 assault rifle into a crowd of Vietnamese and Cambodian schoolchildren in Stockton, California, killing five, wounding 30. It was as if all the major images and symbols of the Vietnam era had suddenly returned but in a new and even more ghastly arrangement. Medivac helicopters beat overhead, but the casualties carried into them were not American soldiers but the children of refugees from the war in which those soldiers had fought. Their killer was an American, though his weapon was the main battle rifle of the Vietcong. I never found out what motivated Purdy. No one ever will because he killed himself after slaughtering the children. But I learned enough about him to conclude that he actually saw himself as a lone American hero on an important mission. He was the son of a Vietnam-era Army veteran, the product of an atomized family and more, the creature of an anomic society as morally neutral as Del Vecchio's Chelini. Still more disturbing were my encounters with other young men very much like him in northern California who praised his barbarous act to me. Rootless and dispossessed, their myths, their controlling images of the war were not the true ones but the obscenely false revenge fantasies purveyed by Rambo, single-handedly wasting the gooks with high-tech weaponry. Some of these characters called themselves skinheads or Aryan youths, but I saw them as flesh and blood manifestations of Myers' vision of the national psychosis, evolving out of our failure to confront the history we wrote in Vietnam. The literature I teach confronts that history bravely and honestly and without compromise. That is necessary today when so many films and television programs are attempting to remythologize Vietnam, to rewrite it so it will fit smoothly into our national narrative, a bit of editorial revision begun by our ex-Hollywood president who transmuted that whole awful chapter in a moment by calling it a noble cause. The literature, however, points to a clearer way out of our landscape of broken myths toward new truths about ourselves and our place in the world. The great challenge facing America today is not war but peace, as the astonishing events of recent months show. We welcome our victory in the so-called Cold War, but that triumph will take from us one of our last myths, defender of the free world. By the turn of the century, if not before, we may find ourselves as St. George without a dragon to fight. Will we become like Stone's Ray Hicks who, lacking a mission he can believe in, becomes a sociopath? Possibly, then, what we should do is begin a new mission, of building within our own shores and borders that shining city on the hill envisioned by the men and women who disembarked from the pilgrim ships onto a vast continent so beautifully described by F. Scott Fitzgerald as \"one commensurate with man's capacity for wonder.\" It's a sense of wonder and of dream we seem to have lost. But I suggest that one way to recapture it is to look through the eyes of Vietnam literature at our long national . Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://iastate.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2486/collection_resources/43240/file/116059#t=0.0,2682.744"}]}]}]}