The war of my generation : youth culture and the War on Terror / edited by David Kieran.
| Other author | Kieran, David, 1978- editor, author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2015] |
| Description | x, 269 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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 ; "Army strong" : Mexican American youth and military recruitment in All she can / 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2014040919 |
| ISBN | 9780813572628 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813572622 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780813572611 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813572614 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (e-book (web pdf)) |
| Standard identifier# | 40025143866 |