{"product_id":"the-war-of-my-generation-youth-culture-and-the-war-on-terror-paperback-softback-9780813572611","title":"The War of My Generation; Youth Culture and the War on Terror (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813572611","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe War of My Generation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eYouth Culture and the War on Terror\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Kieran (Edited by), David Kieran (Contributions by), Holly Swyers (Contributions by), Cindy Dell Clark (Contributions by), Sunaina Maira (Contributions by), Laura Browder (Contributions by), Jeremy K. Saucier (Contributions by), Robertson Allen (Contributions by), Jo Lampert (Contributions by), Irene Garza (Contributions by), Benjamin Cooper (Contributions by), Rebecca A. Adelman (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813572611\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 4 August 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e282 pages, 5 photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.227 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"This carefully edited volume encourages thought about the impact of war, from 9\/11 to involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, on youth in the US through 11 elegant and lucid essays that variously use ethnographic methods and literary and cultural analyses, together with practical reflections on pedagogical method ... Highly recommended.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (CHOICE) \u003cdiv\u003e\"[A] welcome collection of essays … \u003ci\u003eThe War of My Generation\u003c\/i\u003e evinces the historian William Appleman Williams's pithy observation that in the United States empire is, and has long been, 'a way of life.'\"\u003c\/div\u003e (The Chronicle of Higher Education) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A compelling study of what it means to grow up in the shadow of 9\/11--the War on Terror truly is the war of their generation.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Beth Bailey (author of America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force) \u003cdiv\u003e\"The array of approaches and resources in this well-conceived and original volume will make it the 'go to' book on how the war on terror has shaped a generation.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Julia L. Mickenberg (Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, \u0026amp; Radical Politics in the United States) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This collection of essays has created a robust discussion of many aspects of how young people may or may not connect with various actions that are part of the war on terror … \u003ci\u003eThe War of My Generation\u003c\/i\u003e engages the reader in the difficult topics related to the relationship of the military and the personal decision of youth.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (IRSCL Reviews) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe War of My Generation \u003c\/i\u003eis, in some ways, a classic American studies volume, combining a range of disciplinary methods, cultural resources, and popular voices to paint a complex picture of US life at a particular historical moment. Readers with an interdisciplinary bent, who are trained to hunt for diversity where there seems uniformity, will find \u003ci\u003eThe War of My Generation\u003c\/i\u003e compelling.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (American Literary History Online Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFollowing the 9\/11 attacks, approximately four million Americans have turned eighteen each year and more than fifty million children have been born. These members of the millennial and post-millennial generation have come of age in a moment marked by increased anxiety about terrorism, two protracted wars, and policies that have raised questions about the United States's role abroad and at home. Young people have not been shielded from the attacks or from the wars and policy debates that followed. Instead, they have been active participants-as potential military recruits and organizers for social justice amid anti-immigration policies, as students in schools learning about the attacks or readers of young adult literature about wars. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe War of My Generation\u003c\/i\u003e is the first essay collection to focus specifically on how the terrorist attacks and their aftermath have shaped these new generations of Americans. Drawing from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and literary studies, the essays cover a wide range of topics, from graphic war images in the classroom to computer games designed to promote military recruitment to emails from parents in the combat zone. The collection considers what cultural factors and products have shaped young people's experience of the 9\/11 attacks, the wars that have followed, and their experiences as emerging citizen-subjects in that moment. Revealing how young people understand the War on Terror-and how adults understand the way young people think-\u003ci\u003eThe War of My Generation\u003c\/i\u003e offers groundbreaking research on catastrophic events still fresh in our minds. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction:  “\u003cbr\u003eThe War of My Generation”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePart I   Experiences and Attitudes of the 9\/11 Generations\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 1   \u003ci\u003eStarship Troopers\u003c\/i\u003e, School Shootings, and September 11: Changing Generational Consciousnesses and 21st Century Youth\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 2   Summer, Soldiers, Flags and Memorials: How U.S. Children Learn Nation-Linked Militarism from Holidays\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 3   Fighting with Rights and Forging Alliances: Youth Politics in the War on Terror\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePart II   Post-9\/11 Militarism in Old and New Media\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 4   How to Tell a True War Story . . . for Children: Children’\u003cbr\u003es Literature Addresses Deployment\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 5   “\u003cbr\u003eWhat Young Men and Women Do When Their Country Is Attacked”\u003cbr\u003e: Interventionist Discourse and the Rewriting of Violence in Adolescent Literature of the Iraq War\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 6   Calls of Duty: The World War II Combat Video Game and the Construction of the “\u003cbr\u003eNext Great Generation”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 7   Software and Soldier Lifecycles of Recruitment, Training, and Rehabilitation in the Post-9\/11 Era\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePart III   Coming of Age Stories and the Representation of Millennial Citizenship During the War on Terror\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 8   Coming of Age in 9\/11 Fiction: Bildungsroman and Loss of Innocence\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 9  “\u003cbr\u003eArmy Strong”\u003cbr\u003e: Mexican American Youth and Military Recruitment in \u003ci\u003eAll She Can\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePart IV   Politics and Pedagogy\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 10   In This War But Not Of It: Teaching, Memory, and the Futures of Children and War\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eChapter 11   “\u003cbr\u003eCoffins After Coffins”\u003cbr\u003e: Screening Wartime Atrocity in the Classroom\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAfterword:  Scholarship on Millennial and Post-Millennial Culture During the War on Terror: A Bibliographic Essay\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eList of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIndex\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559352791320,"sku":"9780813572611","price":24.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-war-of-my-generation-youth-culture-and-the-war-on-terror-paperback-softback-9780813572611","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}