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War Experience and Trauma in American Literature

Lena-Simone Günther
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.
Autor: Günther, Lena-Simone
EAN: 9783631655115
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 295
Produktart: Gebunden
Verlag: Peter Lang
Untertitel: A Study of American Military Memoirs of "Operation Iraqi Freedom"
Schlagworte: Irakkrieg Kriegsliteratur
Größe: 210 × 148 × 24
Gewicht: 480 g