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War Narratives - Shaping Beliefs, Blurring Truths in the Middle East (Hardcover)
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War Narratives - Shaping Beliefs, Blurring Truths in the Middle East (Hardcover)
Series: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series
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Since the end of the draft in the United States, the nation's wars
have been fought by all-volunteer forces, creating an enormous
divide between the civilian public and its military. Recent wars
have taken place during the information age, allowing cable news
and the ""new media"" of the internet to change, sometimes on a
daily or even hourly basis, the way wars are understood. As a
result, a multitude of competing and often flawed narratives have
emerged that, ultimately, merely explain events in terms of
self-serving political and cultural perspectives. Author Caleb S.
Cage, a veteran of the war in Iraq, brings a unique perspective to
the understanding of how we talk about war. Why does the American
public believe that those who served are somehow both heroes and
victims, while the typical service member rarely embraces either
identity? How does what happens on the front line get communicated
to those back home, and what happens to that information as it
travels? Is it possible that works of fiction are telling the most
""real"" versions of what is happening ""over there""? War
Narratives is a tightly packed and provocative book containing a
series of connected essays on the many competing narratives-both
fiction and nonfiction-that are used to explain recent conflicts in
Iraq and Afghanistan, how those narratives are perceived through
preexisting social, political, and literary lenses, and how they
often fall short. As Cage points out, narratives are not merely the
stories shared or even how they are told; these expressions reflect
choices.
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