TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lena-Simone Günther
PY  - 2016
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653049046
TI  - War Experience and Trauma in American Literature
T2  - A Study of American Military Memoirs of «Operation Iraqi Freedom»
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-04904-6
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1048764
N2  - 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.
KW  - Irakkrieg, Kriegsliteratur, Autobiographie, Krieg gegen den Terror
LA  - English
ER  -