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The Hell of War Comes HomeImaginative Texts from the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq\nAuthor(s): Owen W. Gilman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781496815767, 978-1496815767\nSynopsis\nOwen W. Gilman Jr. stresses the US experience of war in the twenty-first century and argues that wherever and whenever there is war, there will be imaginative responses to it, especially the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Since the trauma of September 11, the experience of Americans at war has been rendered honestly and fully in a wide range of texts?creative nonfiction and journalism, film, poetry, and fiction. These responses, Gilman contends, have packed a lot of power and measure up even to World War IIs literature and film. \n\nLike few other books, Gilmans volume studies these new texts among them Kevin Powerss debut novel The Yellow Birds and Phil Klays short stories Redeployment, along with.