The War of My Generation : : Youth Culture and the War on Terror / / ed. by David Kieran.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Adelman, Rebecca A.; Allen, Robertson.; Browder, Laura.; Clark, Cindy Dell.; Cooper, Benjamin.; Garza, Irene.; Kieran, David.; Lampert, Jo.; Maira, Sunaina.; Saucier, Jeremy K.; Swyers, Holly.
• MitwirkendeR: Adelman, Rebecca A.,; Allen, Robertson,; Browder, Laura,; Clark, Cindy Dell,; Cooper, Benjamin,; Garza, Irene,; Kieran, David,; Lampert, Jo,; Maira, Sunaina,; Saucier, Jeremy K.,; Swyers, Holly,
• HerausgeberIn: Kieran, David,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 p.) :; 5 photographs

Following the 9/11 attacks, approximately four million Americans have turned eighteen each year and more than fifty million children have been born. These members of the millennial and post-millennial generation have come of age in a moment marked by increased anxiety about terrorism, two protracted wars, and policies that have raised questions about the United States's role abroad and at home. Young people have not been shielded from the attacks or from the wars and policy debates that followed. Instead, they have been active participants-as potential military recruits and organizers for social justice amid anti-immigration policies, as students in schools learning about the attacks or readers of young adult literature about wars. The War of My Generation is the first essay collection to focus specifically on how the terrorist attacks and their aftermath have shaped these new generations of Americans. Drawing from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and literary studies, the essays cover a wide range of topics, from graphic war images in the classroom to computer games designed to promote military recruitment to emails from parents in the combat zone. The collection considers what cultural factors and products have shaped young people's experience of the 9/11 attacks, the wars that have followed, and their experiences as emerging citizen-subjects in that moment. Revealing how young people understand the War on Terror-and how adults understand the way young people think-The War of My Generation offers groundbreaking research on catastrophic events still fresh in our minds.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: "The War of My Generation" -- Part I. EXPERIENCES AND ATTITUDES OF THE 9/11 GENERATIONS -- 1. Starship Troopers, School Shootings, and September 11: Changing Generational Consciousnesses and Twenty-First- Century Youth -- 2. Summer, Soldiers, Flags, and Memorials: How US Children Learn Nation-Linked Militarism from Holidays -- 3. Fighting with Rights and Forging Alliances: Youth Politics in the War on Terror -- Part II. POST-9/11 MILITARISM IN OLD AND NEW MEDIA -- 4. How to Tell a True War Story . . . for Children: Children's Literature Addresses Deployment -- 5. "What Young Men and Women Do When Their Country Is Attacked": Interventionist Discourse and the Rewriting of Violence in Adolescent Literature of the Iraq War -- 6. Calls of Duty: The World War II Combat Video Game and the Construction of the "Next Great Generation" -- 7. Software and Soldier Life Cycles of Recruitment, Training, and Rehabilitation in the Post-9/11 Era -- Part III. COMING OF AGE STORIES AND THE REPRESENTATION OF MILLENNIAL CITIZENSHIP DURING THE WAR ON TERROR -- 8. Coming of Age in 9/11 Fiction: Bildungsroman and Loss of Innocence -- 9. "Army Strong": Mexican American Youth and Military Recruitment in All She Can -- Part IV. POLITICS AND PEDAGOGY -- 10. In This War But Not of It: Teaching, Memory, and the Futures of Children and War -- 11. "Coffins after Coffins": Screening Wartime Atrocity in the Classroom -- Afterword: Scholarship on Millennial and Post-Millennial Culture during the War on Terror: A Bibliographic Essay -- List of Contributors -- Index