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Welcome to the Suck: Narrating American Soldier's Experience Iraq

Current price: $33.00
Welcome to the Suck: Narrating American Soldier's Experience Iraq
Welcome to the Suck: Narrating American Soldier's Experience Iraq

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Welcome to the Suck: Narrating American Soldier's Experience Iraq

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Stories about war always encompass ideas about initiation, masculinity, cross-cultural encounters, and trauma. Peebles shows us how these timeless themes find new expression among a generation of soldiers who have grown up in a time 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. Two Gulf War memoirs by Anthony Swofford ( ) and Joel Turnipseed ( ) provide a portrait of soldiers living and fighting on the cusp of the major political and technological changes that would begin in earnest just a few years later. The Iraq War, a much longer conflict, has given rise to more and various representations. Peebles covers a blog by Colby Buzzell ("My War"), memoirs by Nathaniel Fick ( ) and Kayla Williams ( ); a collection of stories by John Crawford ( ); poetry by Brian Turner ( ); the documentary ; and the feature films I and the winner of the 2010 Oscar for Best Picture, , both written by the war correspondent Mark Boal. Books and other media emerging from the conflicts in the Gulf have yet to receive the kind of serious attention that Vietnam War texts received during the 1980s and 1990s. With its thoughtful and timely analysis, will provoke much discussion among those who wish to understand today's war literature and films and their place in the tradition of war representation more generally.

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