Peebles, Stacey L. 1976-

Welcome to the suck : narrating the American soldier's experience in Iraq / Stacey Peebles. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2011. - viii, 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p.[179]-188) and index.

Lines of sight : watching war in Jarhead and My war, killing time in Iraq -- Making a military man : Iraq, gender, and the failure of the masculine collective -- Consuming the other : blinding absence in The last true story I'll ever tell and Here, bullet -- One of U.S. : combat trauma on film in Alive day memories and In the valley of Elah.

9780801449468 0801449464

2010044422


Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American.
Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American.
Persian Gulf War, 1991--Literature and the war.
Iraq War, 2003-2011--Literature and the war.
Iraq War, 2003-2011--Motion pictures and the war.


NMC veteran's writing.

DS79.74 / .P44 2011 PS228.W37 P44 2011

956.7044/24092273