Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror - Armstrong, M C
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"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…mehr

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"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"--
Autorenporträt
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.