{"product_id":"writing-wars-david-f-eisler-9781609388652","title":"Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, Wwi to Present","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2024 Senators Bob and Elizabeth Dole Biennial Award for Distinguished Book in Veterans Studies, winner\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Who writes novels about war? For nearly a century after World War I, the answer was simple: soldiers who had been there. The assumption that a person must have experienced war in the flesh in order to write about it in fiction was taken for granted by writers, reviewers, critics, and even scholars. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contemporary American fiction tells a different story. Less than half of the authors of contemporary war novels are veterans. And that's hardly the only change. Today's war novelists focus on the psychological and moral challenges of soldiers coming home rather than the physical danger of combat overseas. They also imagine the consequences of the wars from non-American perspectives in a way that defies the genre's conventions. To understand why these changes have occurred, David Eisler argues that we must go back nearly fifty years, to the political decision to abolish the draft. The ramifications rippled into the field of cultural production, transforming the foundational characteristics-- authorship, content, and form--of the American war fiction genre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David F. Eisler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1609388658\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609388652\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/14\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2023","brand":"David F. Eisler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44073030091007,"sku":"9781609388652","price":92.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ef75ae7f-fb20-4892-95e2-4d70e3b10f5e.jpg?v=1685445387","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/writing-wars-david-f-eisler-9781609388652","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}