TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frank Usbeck
PY  - 2019
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631782941
TI  - Ceremonial Storytelling
T2  - Ritual and Narrative in Post-9/11 US Wars
DO  - 10.3726/b15345
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1068739
N2  - US society has controversially debated civil-military relationships and war trauma since the Vietnam War. Civic activists today promote Indigenous warrior traditions as role models for non-Native veteran reintegration and health care. They particularly stress the role of ritual and narrative for civil-military negotiations of war experience and for trauma therapy. Applying a cultural-comparative lens, this book reads non-Native soldiers’ and veterans’ life writing from post-9/11 wars as «ceremonial storytelling.» It analyzes activist academic texts, «milblogs» written in the war zone, as well as «homecoming scenarios.» Soldiers’ and veterans’ interactions with civilians constitute jointly constructed, narrative civic rituals that discuss the meaning of war experience and homecoming.
KW  - Military Veterans, War Experience, Life Writing, Blogs, Cultural Comparison, Native Americans
LA  - English
ER  -