The war of my generation : youth culture and the War on Terror / edited by David Kieran.

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.