04142cam a2200457 i 4500 61091 61091 WUSLLib 141114s2016 gw b 000 0 eng 9783631655115 (Print) Sinhala 810.93585670443 23 GUN Günther, Lena-Simone, 11649 War experience and trauma in American literature : a study of American military memoirs of Operation Iraqi Freedom / Lena-Simone Günther. New York Peter Lang 2016 295 pages ; 22 cm. Focuses on military memoirs: One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer (2005) by Nathaniel Fick, The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq (2005) by John Crawford, My War: Killing Time in Iraq (2006) by Colby Buzzell, Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (2009) by Clint van Winkle and Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War (2010) by Matt Gallagher "Walt Whitman wrote: "The real war will never get into the books." To this day, however, American soldier-authors write about their war and translate traumatic experiences into language accessible to the reader. Veterans of the recent Iraq war do not differ here. Joining the post-draft American military, the selected soldier-authors are thrust into a conflict which soon exceeded governmental, military and public expectations. Focusing on core elements which link the selected military memoirs of Nathaniel Fick, Colby Buzzell, Clint Van Winkle, John Crawford and Matt Gallagher together, this book follows the soldier-authors' process of soldierization, their loss of innocence, moral responsibility and, finally, coping mechanisms for traumatic experiences sustained in combat" -- Soldiers' writings, American. 11650 Iraq War, 2003-2011 Personal narratives, American. 11651 Iraq War, 2003-2011 Literature and the war. 11652 War Psychological aspects. 11653 Psychic trauma in literature. 11654 Military ethics United States. 11655 War Moral and ethical aspects United States. 11656 War and society United States. 11657 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc L 0 0 ddc 0 0 LEN MAIN MAIN LEN 2018-10-12 0 810.93585670443GUN 39194 2018-10-12 00:00:00 2018-10-12 L