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Author | : Michael C. Frank |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-09-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000073750 |
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Challenging the predominantly Euro-American approaches to the field, this volume brings together essays on a wide array of literary, filmic and journalistic responses to the decade-long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shifting the focus from so-called 9/11 literature to narratives of the war on terror, and from the transatlantic world to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, the Afghan-Pak border region, South Waziristan, Al-Andalus and Kenya, the book captures the multiple transnational reverberations of the discourses on terrorism, counter-terrorism and insurgency. These include, but are not restricted to, the realignment of geopolitical power relations; the formation of new terrorist networks (ISIS) and regional alliances (Iraq/Syria); the growing number of terrorist incidents in the West; the changing discourses on security and technologies of warfare; and the leveraging of fundamental constitutional principles. The essays featured in this volume draw upon, and critically engage with, the conceptual trajectories within American literary debates, postcolonial discourse and transatlantic literary criticism. Collectively, they move away from the trauma-centrism and residual US-centrism of early literary responses to 9/11 and the criticism thereon, while responding to postcolonial theory’s call for a historical foregrounding of terrorism, insurgency and armed violence in the colonial-imperial power nexus. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.
Author | : Kim Rygiel |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317189213 |
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The war on terror has been raging for many years now, and subsequently there is a growing body of literature examining the development, motivation and effects of this US-led aggression. Virtually absent from these accounts is an examination of the central role that gender, race, class and sexuality play in the war on terror. This lack of attention reflects a continued resistance by analysts to acknowledge and engage identity-related social issues as central elements within global politics. As this conflict spreads and deepens, it is more important than ever to examine how diverse international actors are using the war on terror as an opportunity to reinforce existing gendered, raced, classed and sexualized inter/national relations. This book examines the official war stories being told to the international community about why and against whom the war on terror is being waged. The book will benefit students, scholars and practitioners in the areas of international relations, women's studies and cultural studies.
Author | : Richard Jackson |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2005-07-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780719071218 |
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This book examines the language of the war on terrorism and is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how the Bush administration's approach to counter-terrorism became the dominant policy paradigm in American politics today.
Author | : Thomas H. Johnson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190840609 |
Download Taliban Narratives Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Shines a light on the Taliban's propaganda arm and its impact on the course of the war in Afghanistan.
Author | : Caleb S. Cage |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2019-06-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1623497612 |
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Since the end of the draft in the United States, the nation’s wars have been fought by all-volunteer forces, creating an enormous divide between the civilian public and its military. Recent wars have taken place during the information age, allowing cable news and the “new media” of the internet to change, sometimes on a daily or even hourly basis, the way wars are understood. As a result, a multitude of competing and often flawed narratives have emerged that, ultimately, merely explain events in terms of self-serving political and cultural perspectives. Author Caleb S. Cage, a veteran of the war in Iraq, brings a unique perspective to the understanding of how we talk about war. Why does the American public believe that those who served are somehow both heroes and victims, while the typical service member rarely embraces either identity? How does what happens on the front line get communicated to those back home, and what happens to that information as it travels? Is it possible that works of fiction are telling the most “real” versions of what is happening “over there”? War Narratives is a tightly packed and provocative book containing a series of connected essays on the many competing narratives—both fiction and nonfiction—that are used to explain recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, how those narratives are perceived through preexisting social, political, and literary lenses, and how they often fall short. As Cage points out, narratives are not merely the stories shared or even how they are told; these expressions reflect choices.
Author | : Heather Pope |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2016-06-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1443896640 |
Download Reflecting 9/11 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In over fifteen years, the cultural and artistic response to 9/11 has been wide-ranging in form and function. As the turbulent post-9/11 years have unfolded – years that have been shaped and characterized by the War on Terror, the Patriot Act, the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, 7/7, Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay – these texts have been commemorative and heroic, have attempted to work through collective and individual traumas, and have struggled with trying to represent the “terrorist other.” Many of these earlier domestic, heroic and traumatic works have so often been read as limitations in narrative. This collection, however, challenges the language of limitation and provides re-readings of earlier work, but also traces the emergence of a new paradigm for discussing the artistic responses to 9/11 – one that frames these narratives as dialogic, self-conscious and self-reflexive interventions in the responses to the attacks, the initial representations of the attacks, and the ever-shifting social and geopolitical continuities of the 9/11 decade. These texts widen the conversation about the lasting impacts of 9/11, and incorporate strands of discussion on American exceptionalism and imperialism, torture, and otherness, whilst still remaining invested in the personal and collective traumas of the attacks. The authors included here ask crucial questions about the way 9/11 is being historicized: will it, for example, be read as a moment of rupture or epoch? Will it inevitably be attached to the War on Terror or the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? As they trace the emergent patterns of reflexivity, politicization and dissent, the contributions here are also implicitly invested in asking how far they extend.
Author | : Adam Hodges |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2011-04-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199759596 |
Download The "War on Terror" Narrative Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The War on Terror Narrative provides a longitudinal and holistic study of the formation, circulation, and contestation of the Bush administration's narrative about the "war on terror."
Author | : Ronald R. Krebs |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2015-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107103959 |
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This book shows how dominant narratives have shaped the national security policies of the United States.
Author | : Stephen Hess |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2003-07-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780815796039 |
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These candid conversations capture the difficulties of reporting during crisis and war, particularly the tension between government and the press. The participants include distinguished journalists—American and foreign, print and broadcast—and prominent public officials, past and present. They illuminate the struggle to balance free speech and the right to know with the need to protect sensitive information in the national interest. As the Information Age collides with the War on Terrorism, that challenge becomes even more critical and daunting. "We are very careful in what we talk about publicly. We do not want to paint a picture for the bad guys. So we don't talk very much at all about what we're going to do going forward."—Victoria Clarke, Department of Defense "This was a war that was very different. It was conducted primarily by about 200 to 250 special forces soldiers on the ground. There were no reporters with those soldiers until after the fall of Kandahar, until the war was essentially over. There were no eyes and ears, and that's the way the Pentagon wants it."—John McWethy, ABC News "I covered Capitol Hill for a very long time and was always astounded by the nonpolitical motivation of a lot of people that are up there who really do want to make the world better, want to make the U.S. better. So don't come away believing that because there are political implications that there are always political motivations."—Candy Crowley, CNN "There is a feeling among the community, Muslim Americans, and also overseas that we might become the new enemy. But so far nobody knows whether it is just because of the war or if it's going to last."—Hafez Al-Mirazi, Al-Jazeera Cosponsored with the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School, Harvard University.
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Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 |
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In previous U.S. wars, a central narrative has been a critical element in developing support and directing the war effort. This is not the case with the present "war on terror." Specifically, we found no evidence of a central war narrative in a sample of public administrators. The United States declared the war on terror with no established or emergent "state of war narrative." Since this had proven to be a critical element in the conduct of past wars, it may be useful to evaluate the implications of this historical condition. Of special interest will be the implications for public service employees who, given their closeness to the conduct of wartime activities, might be expected to coordinate their efforts by reference to a common war story. We begin our consideration of the absence of such a story by highlighting war as a cultural phenomenon, and then turn our attention to the important role that narratives play in shaping the actions and decisions of public administrators. We then consider the circumstances surrounding the current "war on terror" in light of the absence of a clearly articulated state of war narrative. Specifically, we will focus on the meaning of four "latent" war narratives that have filled the void and explore the impact this has had among three groups of public administrators whose work and lives are being impacted by the current state of war.