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Adults were once children, yet a generational gap can present itself when grown-ups seek to know children's lives, in research. This work discloses how qualitative research, tailored to be child-centered, can shrink the gap of generational unintelligibility

Frontmatter -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: "The War of My Generation" / Kieran, David -- Part I. EXPERIENCES AND ATTITUDES OF THE 9/11 GENERATIONS -- 1. Starship Troopers, School Shootings, and September 11: Changing Generational Consciousnesses and Twenty-First- Century Youth / Swyers, Holly -- 2. Summer, Soldiers, Flags, and Memorials: How US Children Learn Nation-Linked Militarism from Holidays / Clark, Cindy Dell -- 3. Fighting with Rights and Forging Alliances: Youth Politics in the War on Terror / Maira, Sunaina -- Part II. POST-9/11 MILITARISM IN OLD AND NEW MEDIA -- 4. How to Tell a True War Story . . . for Children: Children's Literature Addresses Deployment / Browder, Laura -- 5. "What Young Men and Women Do When Their Country Is Attacked": Interventionist Discourse and the Rewriting of Violence in Adolescent Literature of the Iraq War / Kieran, David -- 6. Calls of Duty: The World War II Combat Video Game and the Construction of the "Next Great Generation" / Saucier, Jeremy K. -- 7. Software and Soldier Life Cycles of Recruitment, Training, and Rehabilitation in the Post-9/11 Era / Allen, Robertson -- Part III. COMING OF AGE STORIES AND THE REPRESENTATION OF MILLENNIAL CITIZENSHIP DURING THE WAR ON TERROR -- 8. Coming of Age in 9/11 Fiction: Bildungsroman and Loss of Innocence / Lampert, Jo -- 9. "Army Strong": Mexican American Youth and Military Recruitment in All She Can / Garza, Irene -- Part IV. POLITICS AND PEDAGOGY -- 10. In This War But Not of It: Teaching, Memory, and the Futures of Children and War / Cooper, Benjamin -- 11. "Coffins after Coffins": Screening Wartime Atrocity in the Classroom / Adelman, Rebecca A. -- Afterword: Scholarship on Millennial and Post-Millennial Culture during the War on Terror: A Bibliographic Essay / Kieran, David -- List of Contributors -- Index