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dc.contributor.authorUsbeck, Frank
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-02T11:45:27Z
dc.date.available2020-10-02T11:45:27Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifierONIX_20201002_9783631782941_12
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42401
dc.description.abstractUS 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAmerican Culture
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000en_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americasen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JW Warfare and defence::JWX Other warfare and defence issues::JWXV Military veteransen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UD Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guidesen_US
dc.subject.otherLiterature: history and criticism
dc.subject.otherArt: financial aspects
dc.subject.otherHistory
dc.subject.otherHistory of the Americas
dc.subject.otherPsychology
dc.subject.otherAnthropology
dc.subject.otherSocial and cultural anthropology
dc.subject.otherEthnic studies
dc.titleCeremonial Storytelling
dc.title.alternativeRitual and Narrative in Post-9/11 US Wars
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.3726/b15345
oapen.relation.isPublishedBye927e604-2954-4bf6-826b-d5ecb47c6555
oapen.series.number14
oapen.pages332
oapen.place.publicationBern


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