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American War Stories - Veteran-Writers and the Politics of Memoir (Paperback)
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American War Stories - Veteran-Writers and the Politics of Memoir (Paperback)
Series: Veterans
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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.
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