TY  - BOOK
AU  - Usbeck, Frank
AB  - US society has controversially debated civil-military relationships and war trauma since the Vietnam War. Civic activists today promote Indigenous warrior traditions as role models for non-Native veteran reintegration and health care. They particularly stress the role of ritual and narrative for civil-military negotiations of war experience and for trauma therapy. Applying a cultural-comparative lens, this book reads non-Native soldiers’ and veterans’ life writing from post-9/11 wars as «ceremonial storytelling.» It analyzes activist academic texts, «milblogs» written in the war zone, as well as «homecoming scenarios.» Soldiers’ and veterans’ interactions with civilians constitute jointly constructed, narrative civic rituals that discuss the meaning of war experience and homecoming.
DO  - 10.3726/b15345
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20201002_9783631782941_12
KW  - Literature: history and criticism
KW  - Art: financial aspects
KW  - History
KW  - History of the Americas
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Social and cultural anthropology
KW  - Ethnic studies
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/8b650573-e0fa-40a7-ae8b-ee83fe971fb9/9783631782941.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42401
PB  - Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
PP  - Bern
PY  - 2019
TI  - Ceremonial Storytelling : Ritual and Narrative in Post-9/11 US Wars
ER  - 
