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  title info:
    title: American war stories
    sub title: veteran-writers and the politics of memoir
  name:
    name part: Mendible, Myra
    name part: 1954-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 221 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  note: Myra Mendible.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Veterans' writings, American
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    temporal: 21st century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Politics and literature
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Veterans in literature
  classification: PS153.V48 M36 2021
  classification: 810.9/3526970904
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Veterans
  identifier: 9781625346308
  identifier: 1625346301
  identifier: 9781625346315
  identifier: 162534631X
  identifier: 9781613769065
  identifier: 9781613769072
  identifier: 2021017189
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210519
    record change date: 20220315200047.0
    record identifier: in00004557514