Welcome to the Suck : : Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq / / Stacey Peebles.
Our collective memories of World War II and Vietnam have been shaped as much by memoirs, novels, and films as they have been by history books. In Welcome to the Suck, Stacey Peebles examines the growing body of contemporary war stories in prose, poetry, and film that speak to the American soldier�...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) :; 8 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Lines of Sight: Watching War in Jarhead and My War: Killing Time in Iraq
- 2. Making a Military Man: Iraq, Gender, and the Failure of the Masculine Collective
- 3. Consuming the Other: Blinding Absence in The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell and Here, Bullet
- 4. One of U.S.: Combat Trauma on Film in Alive Day Memories and In the Valley of Elah
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index