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American war stories : veteran-writers and the politics of memoir

Title: American war stories : veteran-writers and the politics of memoir / Myra Mendible.
Author: Mendible, Myra, 1954-
Publication: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]

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Description

xv, 221 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Trust in media and political institutions is at an all-time low in America, yet veterans enjoy an unmatched level of credibility and moral authority. Their war stories have become crucial testimony about the nation's leadership, foreign policies, and wars. Veterans' memoirs are not simply self-revelatory personal chronicles but contributions to political culture-to the stories circulated and incorporated into national myths and memories. American War Stories centers on an extensive selection of memoirs written by veterans of the Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan conflicts-including Brian Turner's My Life as a Foreign Country, Marcus Luttrell's Lone Survivor, and Camilo Mejia's Road from ar Ramadi-to explore the complex relationship between memory and politics in the context of postmodern war. Placing veterans' stories in conversation with broader cultural and political discourses, Myra Mendible analyzes the volatile mix of agendas, identities, and issues informing veteran-writers' narrative choices to argue that their work plays an important, though underexamined, political function in how Americans remember and judge their wars"--

Series Statement

Veterans

Uniform Title

Veterans (University of Massachusetts Press)

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-208) and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Real Soldiers, True Fictions -- ch. 1 Protestors, Patriots, And Culture Warriors -- American Politics and the Citizen-Soldier -- ch. 2 The Fate Worse Than Death -- Saving Face and the Affective Economy of War -- ch. 3 Trusting The Messenger -- Veterans' Memoirs and the Politics of Credibility -- ch. 4 "Soldiers Of Conviction" -- Duty, Dissent, and the Immigrant Soldier -- ch. 5 Silence Amid The Din Of War -- The Politics and Poetics of Audibility in Brian Turner's My Life as a Foreign Country -- ch. 6 Beginnings -- Stories That Need Telling.

Call Number

JFE 22-636

ISBN

9781625346308
1625346301
9781625346315
162534631X
9781613769065 (canceled/invalid)
9781613769072 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2021017189

OCLC

1249503149

Author

Mendible, Myra, 1954- author.

Title

American war stories : veteran-writers and the politics of memoir / Myra Mendible.

Publisher

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Veterans

Veterans (University of Massachusetts Press)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-208) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Other Form:

Online version: Mendible, Myra, 1954- American war stories Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2021 9781613769065 (DLC) 2021017190

Research Call Number

JFE 22-636

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