American War Stories

BRENDA M. BOYLE is a professor of English and director of the Writing Center at Denison University, Granville, Ohio. She authored Masculinity in Vietnam War Narratives, co-authored Masculinity and Monstrosity in Contemporary Hollywood Films, edited The Vietnam War, and co-edited Looking Back on the Vietnam War.   

Table of Contents

Introduction    American War Stories Since World War II

1                      State of Crisis: Stories of American Exceptionalism, the French, and Masculinities in Vietnam

2                      Staging War: Stories of Collectivity at, by, and through the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

3                      Lone Wolf Family Man: Stories of Individualism and Collectivism in American Sniper(s) and Lone Survivor(s)

4                      Military Judgment in a Neoliberal Age: Stories of Egalitarianism and the All-Volunteer Force

5                      The Soldier’s Creed: Stories of Warrior Patriotism in Visual Culture

Coda               Prices Paid for the War Stories We Tell

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Index