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GOING SCAPEGOAT IBD

DAVID A BUCHANAN
MCFARLAND AND COMPANY, INC.
09 / 2016
9781476666587
Inglés

Sinopsis

Since 9/11, war literature has become a key element in American popular culture, spurring critical debate about depictions of combat--Who can write war literature? When can they do it? This book presents a new way to closely read war narratives, questioning the idea of ''combat gnosticism''--the belief that the experience of war is impossible to communicate to those who have not seen it--that has dominated the discussion. Adapting Kenneth Burke?s scapegoat mechanism to the criticism of literature and film, the author examines three novels from 2012--Ben Fountain?s Billy Lynn?s Long Halftime Walk, David Abrams?s FOBBIT and Kevin Powers? The Yellow Birds--that represent the U.S. military responses to 9/11.