The War Comes with You Enduring War in Life, Fiction, and Fantasy
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
12.12.2024
Verlag
University Of South Carolina PressSeitenzahl
194
Maße (L/B/H)
22.8/15.6/1.4 cm
Gewicht
272 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-64336-515-2
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 including 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, however, 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.
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