ISBN:
9780415873109
,
9780415873116
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 294 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version How We Are Changed by War : A Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom
DDC:
303.66
Keywords:
War Psychological aspects
;
Identity (Psychology)
;
War and society
;
War - Psychological aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The prolonged conflict in Iraq has shown us war's transformative effect. Civilians rivet themselves to events happening halfway around the world, while young soldiers return home from battlefields, coping with the memories of those events. How We Are Changed by War examines our sense of ourselves through the medium of diaries and wartime correspondence, beginning with the colonists of the early seventeenth century, and ending with the diaries and letters from Iraqi war vets. The book tracks the effects of war in private writings regardless of the narrator's historical era allowing the writers
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Metes and Bounds of Narrative and Self; 2 An Opportunity for Change: War and Ambition; 3 Conversion; 4 A Growing Estrangement; 5 The Complexity of Spectatorship; 6 Eye of the Storm; 7 A Continuing Aftermath; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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