The War Comes with You
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The War Comes with You

Enduring War in Life, Fiction, and Fantasy

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The War Comes with You

Enduring War in Life, Fiction, and Fantasy

About this book

How do we tell twenty-first-century war stories when the wars seem to go on forever?

In the post-2011 surge of war stories published in America and Iraq, the defining characteristic is the depiction of combat violence that crosses borders, overtakes civilian spaces, and disrupts chronology. In The War Comes with You: Enduring War in Life, Fiction, and Fantasy, Stacey Peebles picks up where her groundbreaking first book, Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq, left off. Via careful readings of fiction, memoir, and poetry by writers such as Ben Fountain, Siobhan Fallon, Brian Turner, and Hassan Blasim, as well as recent superhero and Star Wars films, Peebles argues that, in the face of real and fantasy "forever wars," things fall apart. Language, identities, bodies, and even the stories themselves fragment. These narratives suggest that people need not accept incoherence and there is a range of meaningful responses to the experience of everywhere, all-the-time war. Peebles illustrates what to do, that is, when war comes with you.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The War Comes with You
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Harbingers of a New Era
  9. CHAPTER 1 The Second Wave of War Stories: 2011 and Beyond
  10. CHAPTER 2 Running Point: Women Writing War
  11. CHAPTER 3 No More Borders: Giving In and Giving Over
  12. CHAPTER 4 Imagining an Archive: Contemporary Iraqi War Fiction
  13. CHAPTER 5 The Fantasy of Endless War: The Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars
  14. Conclusion: Drones and the Illusion of Clarity
  15. Notes
  16. Works Cited
  17. Index