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Choice Outstanding Academic Title
2024 Senators Bob and Elizabeth Dole Biennial Award for Distinguished Book in Veterans Studies, winner
Who writes novels about war? For nearly a century after World War I, the answer was simple: soldiers who had been there. The assumption that a person must have experienced war in the flesh in order to write about it in fiction was taken for granted by writers, reviewers, critics, and even scholars.
Contemporary American fiction tells a different story. Less than half of the authors of contemporary war novels are veterans. And that's hardly the only change. Today's war novelists focus on the psychological and moral challenges of soldiers coming home rather than the physical danger of combat overseas. They also imagine the consequences of the wars from non-American perspectives in a way that defies the genre's conventions. To understand why these changes have occurred, David Eisler argues that we must go back nearly fifty years, to the political decision to abolish the draft. The ramifications rippled into the field of cultural production, transforming the foundational characteristicsâ authorship, content, and formâof the American war fiction genre.
2024 Senators Bob and Elizabeth Dole Biennial Award for Distinguished Book in Veterans Studies, winner
Who writes novels about war? For nearly a century after World War I, the answer was simple: soldiers who had been there. The assumption that a person must have experienced war in the flesh in order to write about it in fiction was taken for granted by writers, reviewers, critics, and even scholars.
Contemporary American fiction tells a different story. Less than half of the authors of contemporary war novels are veterans. And that's hardly the only change. Today's war novelists focus on the psychological and moral challenges of soldiers coming home rather than the physical danger of combat overseas. They also imagine the consequences of the wars from non-American perspectives in a way that defies the genre's conventions. To understand why these changes have occurred, David Eisler argues that we must go back nearly fifty years, to the political decision to abolish the draft. The ramifications rippled into the field of cultural production, transforming the foundational characteristicsâ authorship, content, and formâof the American war fiction genre.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- One: âStick to Her Own Farms and Farmer Folkâ: World War I and the Origins of Combat Gnosticism
- Two: âTell It Like It Wasâ: World War II and the Institutional Curation of Memory
- Three: âYou Had to Be Thereâ: Vietnam and the Veteranâs Consolidation of Authority
- Four: âYou Donât Have to Be a Veteranâ: The All-Volunteer Force and the Dispersion of Authority
- Five: âThe New Battleâ: The Civil-Military Gap and the Shock of Coming Home
- Six: âThe Other Side of COINâ: Counterinsurgency and the Ethics of Memory
- Seven: âYou Volunteered to Get Screwedâ: Public Trust and the Literary Representation of the Professional Military
- Appendix: The American Novels of Iraq and Afghanistan through 2020
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series List