TY  - GEN
T1  - Ceremonial Storytelling
A1  - Usbeck, Frank
LA  - eng
PB  - Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-29397
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.
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
KW  - thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
KW  - thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas
KW  - thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history
KW  - thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JW Warfare and defence::JWX Other warfare and defence issues::JWXV Military veterans
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