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Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror

Post-9/11 Narratives of Dissent and American War Literature
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Englisch
Bloomsbury Academicerscheint am03.10.2024
"The first study of the literature of dissent that has emerged from the veterans of the global War on Terror. Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terrror explores America's post-9/11 soldier-writers, a community that challenges pivotal contemporary assumptions about allegiance, democracy, geography, solidarity, and national identity. Chapters are organized around a triad of core concepts--parrhesia, cosmopolitanism, and dissensus--and discuss authors including Elliot Ackerman, Kristin Beck, Joseph Hickman, Phil Klay, Kevin Powers, and Edward Snowden, arguing that their work forms a loci of a "dissenting" overhaul of the official narratives and rhetorical maps that chart the United States' Global War on Terror"--mehr
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Klappentext"The first study of the literature of dissent that has emerged from the veterans of the global War on Terror. Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terrror explores America's post-9/11 soldier-writers, a community that challenges pivotal contemporary assumptions about allegiance, democracy, geography, solidarity, and national identity. Chapters are organized around a triad of core concepts--parrhesia, cosmopolitanism, and dissensus--and discuss authors including Elliot Ackerman, Kristin Beck, Joseph Hickman, Phil Klay, Kevin Powers, and Edward Snowden, arguing that their work forms a loci of a "dissenting" overhaul of the official narratives and rhetorical maps that chart the United States' Global War on Terror"--
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ISBN/GTIN979-8-7651-1286-1
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
FormatGenäht
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum03.10.2024
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 25 mm
Gewicht454 g
Artikel-Nr.61306610

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
AcknowledgmentsI. The Challengers-Fearless Speech from the Forever War1. Parrhesia and the Conceptual Apparatus of Outspokenness: From Rhetoric and Politics to Aesthetic Analysis2. The Map of the Territories: Argument StructureII. Disidentity Politics1. More Than Ground Zero: Mall Warriors and Patriotic Correctness2. Geographies of Value: Klay's Redeployment3. Truth in Digital Space: Snowden's Permanent RecordIII. The FOB and Beyond: Patriotism at the Limit1. Democracy in No Man's Land: Elliot Ackerman's "The Fourth War"2. Empathetic Unsettlement: Ackerman's Green on Blue3. The Sheepdog: Transgender and Trans-space in Beck's Warrior PrincessIV. Extraordinary Renditions1. Staging Dissensus2. Stay Deviant: Powers's The Yellow Birds3. Camp No: Hickman's Murder at Camp DeltaV. Conclusion: Ethics, Style, Space: The Soldier-Writer SubcultureNotesBibliographyIndexmehr

Autor

M. C. Armstrong is the author of The Mysteries of Haditha, published in 2020 by Potomac Books. The Brooklyn Rail called The Mysteries of Haditha one of the "Best Books of 2020." Armstrong, who grew up in Winchester, Virginia, embedded with Joint Special Operations Forces in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, in 2008. He published extensively on the Iraq War through The Winchester Star. He is the winner of a Pushcart Prize and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Esquire, The Missouri Review, The Gettysburg Review, and other journals and anthologies. He is the holder of both a PhD and MFA and teaches English at North Carolina A&T State University, USA. You can follow him @mcarmystrong.