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Subtitle: narrating the American soldier's experience in Iraq
By: Stacey Peebles
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780801449468
Subjects: Motion pictures and the war; Persian Gulf War, 1991; American Personal narratives; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Literature and the war
Description: "Stacey Peebles examines the growing body of contemporary war stories in prose, poetry, and film that speak to the American soldier's experience in the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War. Stories about war always encompass ideas about initiation, masculinity, cross-cultural encounters, and trauma. Peebles show us how these timeless themes find new expression among a generation of soldiers who have grown up in an era when it has been more acceptable than ever before to challenge cultural and societal norms, and who now have unprecedented and immediate access to the world away from the battlefield through new media and technology"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[179]-188) and index.
Table of contents: title: Lines of sight : watching war in Jarhead and My war, killing time in Iraq; title: Making a military man : Iraq, gender, and the failure of the masculine collective; title: Consuming the other : blinding absence in The last true story I'll ever tell and Here, bullet; title: One of U.S. : combat trauma on film in Alive day memories and In the valley of Elah.