| Contents |
Introduction: "The war of my generation" / David Kieran -- Part I: Experiences and attitudes of the 9/11 generations. Starship troopers, school shootings, and September 11 : changing generational consciousnesses and twenty-first-century youth / Holly Swyers ; Summer, soldiers, flags, and memorials : how U.S. children learn nation-linked militarism from holidays / Cindy Dell Clark ; Fighting with rights and forging alliances : youth politics in the War on Terror / Sunaina Maira -- Part II: Post-9/11 militarism in old and new media. How to tell a true war story ... for children : children's literature addresses deployment / Laura Browder ; "What young men and women do when their country is attacked" : interventionist discourse and the rewriting of violence in adolescent literature of the Iraq War / David Kieran ; Calls of duty : the World War II combat video game and the construction of the "next great generation" / Jeremy K. Saucier ; Software and soldier lifecycles of recruitment, training, and rehabilitation in the post-9/11 era / Robertson Allen -- Part III: Coming of age stories and the representation of millennial citizenship during the War on Terror. Coming of age in 9/11 fiction : Bildungsroman and loss of innocence / Jo Lampert ; "Army strong" : Mexican American youth and military recruitment in All she can / Irene Garza -- Part IV: Politics and pedagogy. In this war but not of it : teaching, memory, and the futures of children and war / Benjamin Cooper ; "Coffins after coffins" : screening wartime atrocity in the classroom / Rebecca A. Adelman -- Afterword: Scholarship on millennial and postmillennial culture during the War on Terror : a bibliographic essay / David Kieran. |
