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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This carefully edited volume encourages thought about the impact of war, from 9/11 to involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, on youth in the US through 11 elegant and lucid essays that variously use ethnographic methods and literary and cultural analyses, together with practical reflections on pedagogical method ... Highly recommended." * CHOICE *
"[A] welcome collection of essays …
The War of My Generation evinces the historian William Appleman Williams's pithy observation that in the United States empire is, and has long been, 'a way of life.'" * The Chronicle of Higher Education *
"A compelling study of what it means to grow up in the shadow of 9/11--the War on Terror truly is the war of their generation." -- Beth Bailey * author of America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force *
"The array of approaches and resources in this well-conceived and original volume will make it the 'go to' book on how the war on terror has shaped a generation." -- Julia L. Mickenberg * Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, & Radical Politics in the United States *
"This collection of essays has created a robust discussion of many aspects of how young people may or may not connect with various actions that are part of the war on terror …
The War of My Generation engages the reader in the difficult topics related to the relationship of the military and the personal decision of youth." * IRSCL Reviews *
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The War of My Generation is, in some ways, a classic American studies volume, combining a range of disciplinary methods, cultural resources, and popular voices to paint a complex picture of US life at a particular historical moment. Readers with an interdisciplinary bent, who are trained to hunt for diversity where there seems uniformity, will find
The War of My Generation compelling." * American Literary History Online Review *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: “The War of My Generation” Part I Experiences and Attitudes of the 9/11 Generations
Chapter 1
Starship Troopers, School Shootings, and September 11: Changing Generational Consciousnesses and 21st Century Youth Chapter 2 Summer, Soldiers, Flags and Memorials: How U.S. Children Learn Nation-Linked Militarism from Holidays Chapter 3 Fighting with Rights and Forging Alliances: Youth Politics in the War on Terror Part II Post-9/11 Militarism in Old and New Media
Chapter 4 How to Tell a True War Story . . . for Children: Children’s Literature Addresses Deployment Chapter 5 “What Young Men and Women Do When Their Country Is Attacked”: Interventionist Discourse and the Rewriting of Violence in Adolescent Literature of the Iraq War Chapter 6 Calls of Duty: The World War II Combat Video Game and the Construction of the “Next Great Generation” Chapter 7 Software and Soldier Lifecycles of Recruitment, Training, and Rehabilitation in the Post-9/11 Era Part III Coming of Age Stories and the Representation of Millennial Citizenship During the War on Terror
Chapter 8 Coming of Age in 9/11 Fiction: Bildungsroman and Loss of Innocence Chapter 9 “Army Strong”: Mexican American Youth and Military Recruitment in
All She Can Part IV Politics and Pedagogy
Chapter 10 In This War But Not Of It: Teaching, Memory, and the Futures of Children and War Chapter 11 “Coffins After Coffins”: Screening Wartime Atrocity in the Classroom Afterword: Scholarship on Millennial and Post-Millennial Culture During the War on Terror: A Bibliographic Essay Notes
List of Contributors
Index
