TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peebles,Stacey L.
TI  - Welcome to the suck: narrating the American soldier's experience in Iraq 
SN  - 9780801460944
AV  - DS79 .W453 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Ithaca [N.Y.
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Persian Gulf War, 1991
KW  - Personal narratives, American
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - Literature and the war
KW  - Motion pictures and the war
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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 trauma. Peebles show us how these timeless themes find new expression among a generation of soldiers who have grown up in an era 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"--Jacket
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