04343nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-41304-9 DE-He213 20251030111725.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240318s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031413049 978-3-031-41304-9 10.1007/978-3-031-41304-9 doi HM621-656 JFC bicssc 1K bicssc SOC069000 bisacsh JBCC 1K thema Burke, Carol. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 73191 We had the Watches. They had the Time [electronic resource] : A Witness Account of the War in Afghanistan / by Carol Burke. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIX, 223 p. 15 illus., 13 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Renewing the American Narrative, 2524-8340 Chapter 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. This 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. Ethnology America. 66658 Culture. 59159 Middle East History. 73192 Peace. 60021 American Culture. 66659 History of the Middle East. 73193 Peace and Conflict Studies. 68596 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031413032 Printed edition: 9783031413056 Printed edition: 9783031413063 Renewing the American Narrative, 2524-8340 68427 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41304-9 ZDB-2-HTY ZDB-2-SXH 58387 58387