"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
"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"--
Acknowledgments I. The Challengers-Fearless Speech from the Forever War 1. Parrhesia and the Conceptual Apparatus of Outspokenness: From Rhetoric and Politics to Aesthetic Analysis 2. The Map of the Territories: Argument Structure II. Disidentity Politics 1. More Than Ground Zero: Mall Warriors and Patriotic Correctness 2. Geographies of Value: Klay's Redeployment 3. Truth in Digital Space: Snowden's Permanent Record III. The FOB and Beyond: Patriotism at the Limit 1. Democracy in No Man's Land: Elliot Ackerman's "The Fourth War" 2. Empathetic Unsettlement: Ackerman's Green on Blue 3. The Sheepdog: Transgender and Trans-space in Beck's Warrior Princess IV. Extraordinary Renditions 1. Staging Dissensus 2. Stay Deviant: Powers's The Yellow Birds 3. Camp No: Hickman's Murder at Camp Delta V. Conclusion: Ethics, Style, Space: The Soldier-Writer Subculture Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments I. The Challengers-Fearless Speech from the Forever War 1. Parrhesia and the Conceptual Apparatus of Outspokenness: From Rhetoric and Politics to Aesthetic Analysis 2. The Map of the Territories: Argument Structure II. Disidentity Politics 1. More Than Ground Zero: Mall Warriors and Patriotic Correctness 2. Geographies of Value: Klay's Redeployment 3. Truth in Digital Space: Snowden's Permanent Record III. The FOB and Beyond: Patriotism at the Limit 1. Democracy in No Man's Land: Elliot Ackerman's "The Fourth War" 2. Empathetic Unsettlement: Ackerman's Green on Blue 3. The Sheepdog: Transgender and Trans-space in Beck's Warrior Princess IV. Extraordinary Renditions 1. Staging Dissensus 2. Stay Deviant: Powers's The Yellow Birds 3. Camp No: Hickman's Murder at Camp Delta V. Conclusion: Ethics, Style, Space: The Soldier-Writer Subculture Notes Bibliography Index
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