Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. / The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq initiated a surge of texts by US soldiers who utilized recent Web 2.0 technology to forge new types of war narratives, such as the so-called "milblogs." Milblogs merge letter and journal writing with journalistic reporting, and they maintain contact between soldiers and their social environment. They are at once public and private communication. Military psychology since Vietnam has referred to warrior traditions of Native American communities to discuss public narration and ceremonial acknowledgment of a soldier’s war experience as vital elements for veteran readjustment and trauma recovery. This article analyzes an exemplary milblog to argue that the interaction between blogger and audience does similar cultural work and has comparable ceremonial and, therefore, therapeutic functions: Soldiers publicly share their experience, reflect on it with their audience, receive appreciation and support, and thus mutually (re-)negotiate group identity
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:29198 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Usbeck, Frank |
| Contributors | Technische Universität Dresden |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Source | Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Band 62, Heft 2, Seiten 149–163, ISSN (Online) 2196-4726, ISSN (Print) 0044-2305, DOI: 10.1515/zaa-2014-0018, June 2014 |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 10.1515/zaa-2014-0018, 2196-4726 |
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