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Welcome to the suck : narrating the American soldier's experience in Iraq

Title: Welcome to the suck : narrating the American soldier's experience in Iraq / Stacey Peebles.
Author: Peebles, Stacey L. (Stacey Lyn), 1976-
Publication: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2011.

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Description

viii, 192 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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.

Subject

Genre/Form

Personal narratives – American.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Lines of sight : watching war in Jarhead and My war, killing time in Iraq -- Making a military man : Iraq, gender, and the failure of the masculine collective -- Consuming the other : blinding absence in The last true story I'll ever tell and Here, bullet -- One of U.S. : combat trauma on film in Alive day memories and In the valley of Elah.

ISBN

9780801449468
0801449464

LCCN

2010044422

OCLC

ocn671541178
671541178
SCSB-14401744

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library