战争文学是美国文学的重要组成部分。正如评论家约翰·里蒙所言:“战争划分了美国文学史的疆界,如同文学史本身,重大文学时期需要鲜血来开创。”在美国战争文学的多种表现方式中,小说“无疑是最常见、最生动、最有效的表达方式”。作为美国在21世纪发动的一场重要战争,伊拉克战争自然成为当代美国作家的创作素材。早期的描写伊拉克战争的文学作品,多为参战军人的回忆录或通俗小说。2012年是美国伊拉克战争小说的分水岭。在这一年,两部描写伊 War literature is an important part of American literature. As the commentator John Ramon put it: “The war delimited the boundaries of the history of American literature just as the history of literature itself, and the great literature period requires the blood to create.” Among the many manifestations of American war literature, Is undoubtedly the most common, most vivid, most effective way of expression ". As a major war the United States launched in the 21st century, the war in Iraq naturally became a creative material for contemporary American writers. Early literary works describing the war in Iraq were mostly memoirs or popular novels of the war veterans. 2012 is a watershed in the American Iraq war novels. In this year, the two portrays Iraq