The War of My Generation : : Youth Culture and the War on Terror /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (282 p.) :; 5 photographs
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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

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