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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Peebles, Stacey L. (Stacey Lyn), 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
1991-2011
Persian Gulf War, 1991 > Personal narratives, American.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Personal narratives, American.
Persian Gulf War, 1991 > Literature and the war.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Literature and the war.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Motion pictures and the war.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
War and literature
War and motion pictures
Iraq
Electronic book.
Personal narratives > American
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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