“Mash” Today: Medicine, War, and Writing

Tick, Edward; Hill, Frank

doi:10.1016/j.explore.2006.10.009

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“…This public ceremonial acknowledgment through a performance of narration and response is a major reason why Native American soldiers have a higher chance to recover from combat-related stress and PTSD than their nonNative counterparts ("Practitioners" 2005, D1; Holm 1995, 83-84). Suggestions that this cycle of ceremonial interaction could serve non-Native soldiers as well have fused with ideas from the emerging field of narrative therapy for military psycho logy since the 1990s (Holm 1986, 248;Tick and Hill 2013;R.M. Wilson et al 2009).…”

Section: Ceremonial Storytelling In Native Ceremonies and Military Psmentioning

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“Keep that Fan Mail Coming.” Ceremonial Storytelling and Audience Interaction in a US Soldier’s Milblog

Usbeck

2014

Zeitschrift Für Anglistik Und Amerikanistik

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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.

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Section: Ceremonial Storytelling In Native Ceremonies and Military Psmentioning

confidence: 94%

“Keep that Fan Mail Coming.” Ceremonial Storytelling and Audience Interaction in a US Soldier’s Milblog

Usbeck

2014

Zeitschrift Für Anglistik Und Amerikanistik

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“Mash” Today: Medicine, War, and Writing

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“Keep that Fan Mail Coming.” Ceremonial Storytelling and Audience Interaction in a US Soldier’s Milblog

“Keep that Fan Mail Coming.” Ceremonial Storytelling and Audience Interaction in a US Soldier’s Milblog

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