Brenda M Boyle

American War Stories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

American War Stories breaks down the American perception of wars and focuses on how and why we conceptualize the “war” story. It is one of the first studies to ask readers to contemplate what constitutes a “war story” and how that constitution obscures the normalizing of militarism in American culture.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781978807587
• ISBN-10: 1978807589
• Artikelnr.: 58817393

Autorenporträt

BRENDA M. BOYLE is a professor of English and director of the Writing Center at Denison University, Granville, Ohio. She authored Masculinity in Vietnam War Narratives, co-authored Masculinity and Monstrosity in Contemporary Hollywood Films, edited The Vietnam War, and co-edited Looking Back on the Vietnam War.   

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction    American War Stories Since World War II
1                      State of Crisis: Stories of American Exceptionalism,
the French, and Masculinities in Vietnam
2                      Staging War: Stories of Collectivity at, by, and
through the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
3                      Lone Wolf Family Man: Stories of Individualism and
Collectivism in American Sniper(s) and Lone Survivor(s)
4                      Military Judgment in a Neoliberal Age: Stories of
Egalitarianism and the All-Volunteer Force
5                      The Soldier's Creed: Stories of Warrior Patriotism
in Visual Culture
Coda               Prices Paid for the War Stories We Tell
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index