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Culture, Trauma, and Conflict: Cultural Studies Perspectives on War
Edited by Nico Carpentier
1-84718-190-2
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (www.c-s-p.org)
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War has been pervasive in the 20th century and the 21st century seems
to hold little promise of improvement. War is still one of the
world's most destructive forces, which on a daily basis touches the
lives of millions of people. To increase our understanding of the
pervasiveness and destructiveness of the institution of war, we need
to mobilize all possible frameworks of knowledge. Cultural War
Studies has an important role to play in adding to this knowledge, by
putting the critical vocabulary of Cultural Studies to good use to
analyze the constructions that push us towards a glorified killing of
fellow human beings and then try to make us forget the intensity and
durability of the trauma.
The first part of this book focuses on the diversity of media that
generate meanings and definitions of past and contemporary wars.
These chapters are not restricted to the more traditional analyses of
media content, but utilize these media products to reflect on the
contemporary cultural condition(s) in the U.S.A. and Europe. The
second part of the book moves (at least partially) away from media
representations and focuses on torture and incarceration. Although in
this part the materiality of war and conflict is very present, these
analyses again show the importance of the constructions of enemy
identities and of (the acceptability of) violent practices. The third
and final part of the book is related to memory and trauma. A series
of 20th century conflicts and wars are revisited to demonstrate the
cultural durability of war and the interconnection of these wars with
present-day discourses and practices through the dialectics of
remembering, commemorating and forgetting.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Strengthening Cultural War Studies
Nico Carpentier
Part I: Media Representations of War
"Fort Living Room": Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality, and Sentiment in
the HBO Documentary Last Letters Home
Rebecca A. Adelman
Good Grief: The Cultural Work of Flightplan and the Vanishing Lady
Tale Christina Lane
Media, Genocide and Hotel Rwanda
Metasebia Woldemariam and Kylo-Patrick R. Hart
Photos for Access: War Pornography and USAmerica's Practices of Power
Karen J. Hall
Part II: Incarceration and torture
Abu Ghraib, War Media and the Gray Zones of Imperial Citizenship
Usha Zacharias
Torture: Alibi and Archetype in U.S. News and Legal Writing since 2001
Stephanie Athey
Part III: Trauma and memory
News Images as Lived Images: Witness, Performance, and the U.S. Flag after 9/11
Gordon Coonfield
American Infants: Coping with Trauma and becoming Historical in A
Home at the End of the World and American Pastoral
Vincent Stephens
Life and Death in the Shadow of the A-Bomb: Sovereignty and Memory on
the 60th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Marc Lafleur
Intersecting Traumas: The Holocaust, The Palestinian Occupation, and
the Work of Israeli Journalist Amira Hass
Tina Wasserman
From Individual Tragedy to Societal Dislocation: The Filmic
Representation of Tragedy, Dislocation, and Cultural Trauma in the
Dreyfus Affair
Nico Carpentier
Author Index
Subject Index
About the authors
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