Refiguring Difference: Imaginative Geographies and “Connective Dissonance” in Three Novels of the Iraq War
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The authors analyzed three contemporary novels that engage with the most recent Iraq war: Point Omega by Don DeLillo (2010), Gods without Men by Hari Kunzru (2011), and The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (2012).Abstract:
This article analyzes three contemporary novels that engage with the most recent Iraq war: Point Omega by Don DeLillo (2010), Gods without Men by Hari Kunzru (2011), and The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (2012). It argues that the novels produce a kind of “connective dissonance” that works to redress what Judith Butler has described as a dehumanizing “derealization of loss” in the context of Western media representations of the war on terror.read more
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The New York Review of Books
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Dialectics of humanism : thematic readings of the literature of the Vietnam and Iraq Wars
TL;DR: In this article, a thematic-based analysis of cultural texts from both wars in order to identify veterans' contrasting responses to the militarization of the body (chapter 2), the mental and physical trauma that ensues from war disabling injuries (chapter 3), the hyper-masculine military culture (chapter 4), and the long-held strategy to dehumanize the enemy (chapter 5).
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A soldier's post traumatic stress disorder in Kevin Power's The Yellow Birds
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the theory of posttraumatic stress disorder development by Gerald C Davison to uncovering PTSD in The Yellow Birds novel that underlies the behavior of the main characters, Private John Bartle.
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‘I Got Your Six—Maybe’: A Drafted Versus Volunteer Bond, A Drafted Versus Volunteer Loss
TL;DR: The authors argue that the bonds formed among drafted soldiers during the Vietnam War surpass the bonds of today's "career soldiers" due to the Vietnam vets' dissimilar backgrounds, the nation's collective scorn for their service, and their lack of training.
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The New York Review of Books
TL;DR: The New York Review ofBooks as mentioned in this paper is now over twenty years old and it has attracted controversy since its inception, but it is the controversies that attract the interest of the reader and to which the history, especially an admittedly impressionistic survey, must give some attention.
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