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Author:

Peebles, Stacey L. (Stacey Lyn), 1976-

Title:

Welcome to the suck : narrating the American soldier's experience in Iraq / Stacey Peebles.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

viii, 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American.
Iraq War, 2003---Personal narratives, American.
Persian Gulf War, 1991--Literature and the war.
Iraq War, 2003---Literature and the war.
Iraq War, 2003---Motion pictures and the war.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p.[179]-188) and index.

Contents:

Lines of sight : watching war in Jarhead and My war, killing time in Iraq -- Making a military man : Iraq, gender, and the failure of the masculine collective -- Consuming the other : blinding absence in The last true story I'll ever tell and Here, bullet -- One of U.S. : combat trauma on film in Alive day memories and In the valley of Elah.

ISBN:

0801449464 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801449468 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)671541178

LCCN:

2010044422

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)