
The War Comes with You
Enduring War in Life, Fiction, and Fantasy
Stacey Peebles(Author)
University of South Carolina Press
Published on 31. December 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-64336-515-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 including 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, however, 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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Language
English
Place of publication
South Carolina
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
8 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64336-515-2 (9781643365152)
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Person
Stacey Peebles is H. W. Stodghill, Jr. and Adele H. Stodghill Professor of English and Film Studies at Centre College. She is the author of Welcome to the Suck and Cormac McCarthy and Performance and editor of the Cormac McCarthy Journal.