Americans do not genuinely support the troops. This is the impression Ben Fountain’s 2012 war novel Billy Lynn’s…
Rebecca Rapp
Rebecca Rapp is a student of Political Science and English Literature at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Through an exchange to Detroit, MI she has found not only a second family in the U.S. but also a strong interest for America's society and political structure. A class on American War Fiction further introduced her to the examination of society's relationships to war, veterans and national pride. She aims to understand society more thoroughly and use her given perspective as a foreigner to contribute to the discourse.