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- Title
Shoot and Cry: Modernism, Realism, and the Iraq War Fiction of Kevin Powers and Justin Sirois.
- Authors
Holstun, Jim
- Abstract
The article discusses the depiction of realism, modernism and the Iraq War in the works of Kevin Powers and Justin Sirois. Topics discussed include Power's Iraq War fiction "The Yellow Birds," realism in Sirois' "Falcons on the Floor" and modernism in "The Yellow Birds" and "The Last Book of Baghdad", and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Powers and Sirois' works.
- Subjects
IRAQ War, 2003-2011, in literature; POWERS, Kevin; SIROIS, Justin; YELLOW Birds: A Novel, The (Book : Powers); FALCONS on the Floor (Book); LITERARY realism; POST-traumatic stress disorder in literature
- Publication
Cultural Critique, 2019, Issue 104, p1
- ISSN
0882-4371
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/cul.2019.0033