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Afghanistan War personal accounts
American identity and soldier stories
American Sniper
American veterans
Anthony Swofford
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autobiography
battlefield reflections
Born on the Fourth of July
Brian Turner
Camilo Mejia
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challenging war myths
Chickenhawk
Chris Kyle
cultural meaning of soldier stories
cultural memory and war
David Bellavia
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first-hand war accounts
House to House
Iraq War literature
Jake Wood
Jarhead
Karl Marlantes
Kevin Lacz
Kevin Sites
life writing
Lone Survivor
Marcus Luttrell
Mat Best
Matterhorn
memoirs that challenge official history
military experience in literature
military narratives and democracy
military storytelling
military truth-telling
moral authority of veterans
My Life as a Foreign Country
narratives of combat
national memory and war
Nicholas Irving
Once a Warrior
personal stories of conflict
Phil Klay
political impact of veteran voices
post-911 veteran writing
power of veteran storytelling
Redeployment
Road from ar Ramadi
Robert Mason
Ron Kovic
soldier authors
soldier narratives
soldiers as government critics
soldiers as public voices
soldiers influencing public opinion
soldiers shaping history
soldiers shaping public opinion
storytelling after combat
Thank You for My Service
The Last Punisher
The Reaper
The Things They Cannot Say
veteran-authored books
veterans and civic discourse
veterans studies
veterans' memoirs
veterans' perspective on war
Vietnam veterans and culture
war and national identity
war experiences in writing
war memoir analysis
war stories and society
What It Is Like to Go to War
writing from the front lines
writing the war experience
Product details
- ISBN 9781625346315
- Weight: 368g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 17 Dec 2021
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Trust in media and political institutions is at an all-time low in America, yet veterans enjoy an unmatched level of credibility and moral authority. Their war stories have become crucial testimony about the nation's leadership, foreign policies, and wars. Veterans' memoirs are not simply self-revelatory personal chronicles but contributions to political culture—to the stories circulated and incorporated into national myths and memories.
American War Stories centers on an extensive selection of memoirs written by veterans of the Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan conflicts—including Brian Turner's My Life as a Foreign Country, Marcus Luttrell's Lone Survivor, and Camilo Mejia's Road from ar Ramadi—to explore the complex relationship between memory and politics in the context of postmodern war. Placing veterans' stories in conversation with broader cultural and political discourses, Myra Mendible analyzes the volatile mix of agendas, identities, and issues informing veteran-writers' narrative choices to argue that their work plays an important, though underexamined, political function in how Americans remember and judge their wars.
American War Stories centers on an extensive selection of memoirs written by veterans of the Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan conflicts—including Brian Turner's My Life as a Foreign Country, Marcus Luttrell's Lone Survivor, and Camilo Mejia's Road from ar Ramadi—to explore the complex relationship between memory and politics in the context of postmodern war. Placing veterans' stories in conversation with broader cultural and political discourses, Myra Mendible analyzes the volatile mix of agendas, identities, and issues informing veteran-writers' narrative choices to argue that their work plays an important, though underexamined, political function in how Americans remember and judge their wars.
