| War Experience and Trauma in American Literature: A Study of American Military Memoirs of Operation Iraqi Freedom Contributor(s): Günther, Lena-Simone (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631655118 ISBN-13: 9783631655115 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $93.06 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Literary Criticism | American - General - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 810.935 |
| LCCN: 2014044310 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.3" (1.10 lbs) 295 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Walt Whitman wrote: The real war will never get into the books. To this day, however, American soldier-authors write about their war and translate traumatic experiences into language accessible to the reader. Veterans of the recent Iraq war do not differ here. Joining the post-draft American military, the selected soldier-authors are thrust into a conflict which soon exceeded governmental, military and public expectations. Focusing on core elements which link the selected military memoirs of Nathaniel Fick, Colby Buzzell, Clint Van Winkle, John Crawford and Matt Gallagher together, this book follows the soldier-authors' process of soldierization, their loss of innocence, moral responsibility and, finally, coping mechanisms for traumatic experiences sustained in combat. |
