The war of my generation : youth culture and the War on Terror /
The war of my generation : youth culture and the War on Terror /
edited by David Kieran.
- x, 269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the war of my generation / David Kieran -- Part I. Experiences and attitudes of the 9/11 generations -- Starship troopers, school shootings, and September 11: changing generational consciousnesses and twenty-first-century youth / Holly Swyers -- Summer, soldiers, flags, and memorials: how U.S. children learn nation-linked militarism from holidays / Cindy Dell Clark -- Fighting with rights and forging alliances: youth politics in the War on Terror / Sunaina Maira -- Part II. Post-9/11 militarism in old and new media -- How to tell a true war story...for children: children's literature addresses deployment / Laura Browder -- "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 / David Kieran -- Calls of duty: the World War II combat video game and the construction of the "next great generation" / Jeremy K. Saucier -- Software and soldier lifecycles of recruitment, training, and rehabilitation in the post-9/11 era / Robertson Allen -- Part III. Coming of age stories and the representation of millennial citizenship during the War on Terror -- Coming of age in 9/11 fiction: Bildungsroman and loss of innocence / Jo Lampert -- "Its oil fields, fast food, and top gun in a Humvee--and given the three, it's the army for me": Mexican American youth, military recruitment, and discursive logics of escape in All she can (2011) / Irene Garza -- Part IV. Politics and pedagogy -- In this war but not of it: teaching, memory, and the futures of children and war / Benjamin Cooper -- "Coffins after coffins": screening wartime atrocity in the classroom / Rebecca A. Adelman -- Afterword: scholarship on millennial and postmillennial culture during the War on Terror: a bibliographic essay / David Kieran.
9780813572628 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813572611 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2014040919
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Social aspects--United States.
Youth--Social conditions--United States--21st century.
Popular culture--History--United States--21st century.
Political culture--History--United States--21st century.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Influence.
War and society--United States.
HV6432 / .W3717 2015
306.2/70973090511
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the war of my generation / David Kieran -- Part I. Experiences and attitudes of the 9/11 generations -- Starship troopers, school shootings, and September 11: changing generational consciousnesses and twenty-first-century youth / Holly Swyers -- Summer, soldiers, flags, and memorials: how U.S. children learn nation-linked militarism from holidays / Cindy Dell Clark -- Fighting with rights and forging alliances: youth politics in the War on Terror / Sunaina Maira -- Part II. Post-9/11 militarism in old and new media -- How to tell a true war story...for children: children's literature addresses deployment / Laura Browder -- "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 / David Kieran -- Calls of duty: the World War II combat video game and the construction of the "next great generation" / Jeremy K. Saucier -- Software and soldier lifecycles of recruitment, training, and rehabilitation in the post-9/11 era / Robertson Allen -- Part III. Coming of age stories and the representation of millennial citizenship during the War on Terror -- Coming of age in 9/11 fiction: Bildungsroman and loss of innocence / Jo Lampert -- "Its oil fields, fast food, and top gun in a Humvee--and given the three, it's the army for me": Mexican American youth, military recruitment, and discursive logics of escape in All she can (2011) / Irene Garza -- Part IV. Politics and pedagogy -- In this war but not of it: teaching, memory, and the futures of children and war / Benjamin Cooper -- "Coffins after coffins": screening wartime atrocity in the classroom / Rebecca A. Adelman -- Afterword: scholarship on millennial and postmillennial culture during the War on Terror: a bibliographic essay / David Kieran.
9780813572628 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813572611 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2014040919
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Social aspects--United States.
Youth--Social conditions--United States--21st century.
Popular culture--History--United States--21st century.
Political culture--History--United States--21st century.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Influence.
War and society--United States.
HV6432 / .W3717 2015
306.2/70973090511