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TitleHearts and minds
NameSmith, Kevin S. (author); Grostein, Lauren (chair); Rutgers University; Camden Graduate School
Date Created2017
Other Date2017-10 (degree)
SubjectCreative Writing
Extent1 online resource (iii, 93 p.)
DescriptionThe stories in this collection were inspired during my two deployments as a Marine in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. I have watched as an entire generation of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines have come back from fighting wars in the Middle East only to be met with a new challenge: battling guilt, acceptance, meaning, and a public with a decreasing attention span. The characters in these stories mirror my own complicated feelings about being involved in an immoral war, though their perceptions are not construed as a finger-wagging, moralizing force. Instead, these characters cope with more immediate conflicts, such as the struggle of life and death, and immediate acceptance of military orders. From downtown Fallujah to rural gas stations in Pennsylvania, the trajectory of these characters takes them from the battlefield to home and back again, and the confusing and often contradictory notions of patriotism, service, duty, and honor follow them like the ghosts of those who never made it back.
NoteM.F.A.
Noteby Kevin S. Smith
Genretheses, ETD graduate
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T37S7RV5
Languageeng
CollectionCamden Graduate School Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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