Ceremonial Storytelling Ritual and Narrative in Post-9/11 US Wars

• Tác giả chính: Usbeck, Frank (auth)
• Định dạng: Điện tử Chương của sách
• Ngôn ngữ: Tiếng Anh
• Được phát hành: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2019
• Loạt: American Culture 14
• Những chủ đề: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; History of the Americas; Military history; Archaeology; Cultural studies; Media studies; Military veterans; Digital lifestyle; Literature: history and criticism; Art: financial aspects; History; Psychology; Anthropology; Social and cultural anthropology; Ethnic studies
• Truy cập trực tuyến: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Tóm tắt

US society has controversially debated civil-military relationships and war trauma since the Vietnam War. Civic activists today promote Indigenous warrior traditions as role models for non-Native veteran reintegration and health care. They particularly stress the role of ritual and narrative for civil-military negotiations of war experience and for trauma therapy. Applying a cultural-comparative lens, this book reads non-Native soldiers' and veterans' life writing from post-9/11 wars as «ceremonial storytelling.» It analyzes activist academic texts, «milblogs» written in the war zone, as well as «homecoming scenarios.» Soldiers' and veterans' interactions with civilians constitute jointly constructed, narrative civic rituals that discuss the meaning of war experience and homecoming.

Mô tả vật lý

1 electronic resource (332 p.)

số ISBN

b15345

Truy cập

Open Access