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David Kieran (Ed.) - The War of My Generation: Youth Culture and the War on Terror - 9780813572611 - V9780813572611
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The War of My Generation: Youth Culture and the War on Terror

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Following 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...
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Following 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. 

The War of My Generation 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—The War of My Generation offers groundbreaking research on catastrophic events still fresh in our minds.  

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813572611
SKU
V9780813572611
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99-50

About David Kieran (Ed.)
DAVID KIERAN is assistant professor of history at Washington & Jefferson College, in Washington, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Forever Vietnam: How a Divisive War Changed American Public Memory. 

Reviews for The War of My Generation: Youth Culture and the War on Terror
"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."
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"[A] welcome collection of essays...
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"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."
CHOICE
"[A] welcome collection of essays … The War of My Generation evinces the historian William Appleman Williams's pithy observation that in the United States empire is, and has long been, 'a way of life.'"
The Chronicle of Higher Education
"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."
Beth Bailey
author of America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force
"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."
Julia L. Mickenberg
Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, & Radical Politics in the United States
"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 … The War of My Generation engages the reader in the difficult topics related to the relationship of the military and the personal decision of youth."
IRSCL Reviews
"The War of My Generation is, 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 The War of My Generation compelling."
American Literary History Online Review

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