04000nam a22004815i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001400153072001600167072001500183072002300198072002000221100007500241245013100316250001800447264007900465300006500544336002600609337002600635338003600661347002400697490004800721505048600769520184101255650002403096650001303120650002603133650001103159650002203170650003203192650003203224710003403256773002603290776003603316776003603352776003603388830004803424856004603472978-3-031-41304-9DE-He21320251030111725.0cr nn 008mamaa240318s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830314130497 a10.1007/978-3-031-41304-92doi 4aHM621-656 7aJFC2bicssc 7a1K2bicssc 7aSOC0690002bisacsh 7aJBCCx1K2thema1 aBurke, Carol.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aWe had the Watches. They had the Timeh[electronic resource] :bA Witness Account of the War in Afghanistan /cby Carol Burke.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXIX, 223 p. 15 illus., 13 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aRenewing the American Narrative,x2524-83400 aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Training for COIN (counterinsurgency) -- Chapter 3: What We Leave Behind and What We Take to War -- Chapter 4: Going Downrange -- Chapter 5: Going Way Downrange -- Chapter 6: Band of Brothers and Sisters -- Chapter 7: Women On and Off the FOB -- Chapter 8: Sex on the FOB (forward operating base) -- Chapter 9: Under Western Eyes -- Chapter 10: Who tells stories on deployment? -- Chapter 11: The Burning of a Quran -- Chapter 12: Coming Home.  aThis book focuses on the war in Afghanistan. In 2010 and 2011, the author took a leave from her faculty position at the University of California, Irvine to train and then deploy as a cultural advisor with two U.S. Army combat units in Afghanistan. Her account begins with the U.S. Army’s four-month training program for cultural advisors, follows her deployment, much of it on missions to remote and volatile areas far from brigade headquarters, and concludes with her uneasy return home. She examines the everyday lives of Americans sent to conduct a war of counterinsurgency, including their sexual exploits on base, their superstitions, even the heroic accounts that military contractors recount in their personal stories of past wars, stories that are sometimes a little too good to be true. In turn, she explores the views of ordinary Afghans to this American occupation. Carol Burke is Professor Emerita in English at UC Irvine, and Visiting Scholar in University of North Carolina’s Program in Peace, War and Defense. She combines her ethnographic skills as a folklorist with her interest in literary journalism. Publications include Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight, a study of military culture; Women’s Visions, a book that explores accounts of the supernatural and the uncanny exchanged by women in prison; The Creative Process (coauthored with Molly Tinsley), a creative writing text; Plain Talk and Back in Those Days, collections of family folklore--the latter coauthored with Martin Light; and Close Quarters, a collection of poems. Articles have appeared in magazines like The Nation and The New Republic as well as scholarly journals and collections. Before joining the faculty at UCI in 2004, Professor Burke taught courses in literary journalism at Vanderbilt and Johns Hopkins Universities. 0aEthnologyxAmerica. 0aCulture. 0aMiddle EastxHistory. 0aPeace.14aAmerican Culture.24aHistory of the Middle East.24aPeace and Conflict Studies.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303141303208iPrinted edition:z978303141305608iPrinted edition:z9783031413063 0aRenewing the American Narrative,x2524-834040uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41304-9