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03718aam a22004818i 4500 001 1909CC54803411ED944134D030ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221220010056 008 220622s2022 iau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022009048 020 $a 1609388658 020 $a 9781609388652 035 $a (OCoLC)1333436462 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS374.W35 $b E36 2022 082 00 $a 813.009/3581 $2 23/eng/20220627 100 1 $a Eisler, David F., $d 1984- $e author. 245 10 $a Writing wars : $b authorship and American war fiction, WWI to present / $c David F. Eisler. 263 $a 2210 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University of Iowa Press, $c [2022] 300 $a 253 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 23 cm. 490 0 $a The new American canon 520 $a "Who writes novels about war? For nearly a century after World War I, the answer was simple: soldiers who had been there. The assumption that a person must have experienced war in the flesh in order to write about it in fiction was taken for granted by writers, reviewers, critics, and even scholars. Contemporary American fiction tells a different story. Less than half of the authors of contemporary war novels are veterans. And that's hardly the only change. Today's war novelists focus on the psychological and moral challenges of soldiers coming home rather than the physical danger of combat overseas. They also imagine the consequences of the wars from non-American perspectives in a way that defies the genre's conventions. To understand why these changes have occurred, David Eisler argues that we must go back nearly fifty years, to the political decision to abolish the draft. The ramifications rippled into the field of cultural production, transforming the foundational characteristics- authorship, content, and form-of the American war fiction genre"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- "Stick to Her Farms and Farmer Folk": World War I and the Origins of Combat Gnosticism -- "Tell It Like It Was": World War II and the Institutional Curation of Memory -- "You Had to Be There": Vietnam and the Veteran's Consolidation of Authority -- "You Don't Have to Be a Veteran": The All-Volunteer Force and the Dispersion of Authority -- "The New Battle": The Civil-Military Gap and the Shock of Coming Home -- "The Other Side of COIN": Counterinsurgency and the Ethics of Memory -- "You Volunteered to Get Screwed": Public Trust and the Literary Representation of the Professional Military -- Appendix: The American Novels of Iraq and Afghanistan through 2020. 648 7 $a 1900-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a War stories, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a War stories $x Authorship. 650 7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a War stories, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170631 650 7 $a War stories $x Authorship. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170628 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 710 2 $a University of Iowa Press, $e donor. $e donor. $5 IaU 776 08 $i Online version: $a Eisler, David F., 1984- $t Writing wars $d Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2022] $z 9781609388669 $w (DLC) 2022009049 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117032720.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1909CC54803411ED944134D030ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search