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Going scapegoat : post/9/11 war literature, language and culture / David A. Buchanan.

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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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
  • Powers, Kevin
  • Fountain, Ben
  • Abrams, David, 1963-
  • 2000-2099
  • War stories, American > History and criticism
  • American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
  • Soldiers as authors
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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."
ISBN
  • 9781476666587
  • 147666658X
LCCN
^^2016036391
OCLC
  • 952390212
  • SCSB-10634551
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library