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The War Comes with You : Enduring War in Life, Fiction, and Fantasy / Stacey Peebles.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peebles, Stacey L. (Stacey Lyn), 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Literature and the war.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Motion pictures and the war.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Literature and the war.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Motion pictures and the war.
- War stories, American--History and criticism.
- War stories, American.
- War films--United States--History and criticism.
- War films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (195 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- How do we tell twenty-first-century war stories when the wars seem to go on forever? In the post-2011 surge of war stories published in America and Iraq, the defining characteristic is the depiction of combat violence that crosses borders, overtakes civilian spaces, and disrupts chronology. In The War Comes with You: Enduring War in Life, Fiction, and Fantasy, Stacey Peebles picks up where her groundbreaking first book, Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq, left off. Via careful readings of fiction, memoir, and poetry by writers such as Ben Fountain, Siobhan Fallon, Brian Turner, and Hassan Blasim, as well as recent superhero and Star Wars films, Peebles argues that, in the face of real and fantasy "forever wars, " things fall apart. Language, identities, bodies, and even the stories themselves fragment. These narratives suggest that people need not accept incoherence and there is a range of meaningful responses to the experience of everywhere, all-the-time war. Peebles illustrates what to do, that is, when war comes with you.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781643365169
- 1643365169
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