| Ceremonial Storytelling: Ritual and Narrative in Post-9/11 US Wars Contributor(s): Klepper, Martin (Other), Usbeck, Frank (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631771452 ISBN-13: 9783631771457 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $87.52 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Russian & Former Soviet Union - Art | Business Aspects - History | Latin America - General |
| Dewey: 303.66 |
| LCCN: 2019012272 |
| Series: American Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.30 lbs) 332 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia - Cultural Region - Latin America - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: US society has controversially debated civil-military relationships and war trauma since the Vietnam War. Civic activists today promote Indigenous warrior traditions as role models for non-Native veteran reintegration and health care. They particularly stress the role of ritual and narrative for civil-military negotiations of war experience and for trauma therapy. Applying a cultural-comparative lens, this book reads non-Native soldiers' and veterans' life writing from post-9/11 wars as ceremonial storytelling. It analyzes activist academic texts, milblogs written in the war zone, as well as homecoming scenarios. Soldiers' and veterans' interactions with civilians constitute jointly constructed, narrative civic rituals that discuss the meaning of war experience and homecoming. |