Welcome to the suck : narrating the American soldier's experience in Iraq /

Welcome to the suck : narrating the American soldier's experience in Iraq /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Peebles, Stacey L. (Stacey Lyn), 1976-
Imprint:	Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 192 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Personal narratives, American. Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, American. Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Literature and the war. Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Literature and the war. Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Motion pictures and the war. War and literature. War and motion pictures. Iraq. Electronic book. Personal narratives -- American.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11258022

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ISBN:	9780801460944 0801460948 9780801449468 0801449464 0801449464
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. In English. Print version record.
Summary:	"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.
Other form:	Print version: Peebles, Stacey L. (Stacey Lyn), 1976- Welcome to the suck. Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2011
Standard no.:	10.7591/9780801460944

Table of Contents:

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.