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Going scapegoat : post/9/11 war literature, language and culture
- Title
- Going scapegoat : post/9/11 war literature, language and culture / David A. Buchanan.
- Author
- Buchanan, David A., 1976-
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFE 16-13078 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- vii; 223 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "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.""--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Literature, Criticism and the Fetishization of Experience -- Kenneth Burke: A Method for War Literature -- Confounding Expectations in Kevin Powers's The Yellow Birds -- The Comic Corrective and Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn -- The Convenient Scapegoat in David Abrams's FOBBIT -- Representing Hajji: This Generation's Enemy "Other."
- Call Number
- JFE 16-13078
- ISBN
- 9781476666587
- 147666658X
- LCCN
- 2016036391
- OCLC
- 952390212
- Author
- Buchanan, David A., 1976- author.
- Title
- Going scapegoat : post/9/11 war literature, language and culture / David A. Buchanan.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-13078