Going Scapegoat : Post-9/11 War Literature, Language and Culture

Buchanan, David A.

McFarland & Co Inc（2016/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 232 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781476666587
• DDC分類 810.93581

Full Description

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"--the belief that the experience of war is impossible to communicate to those who have not seen it--that has dominated the discussion.

Adapting Kenneth Burke's scapegoat mechanism to the criticism of literature and film, the author examines three novels from 2012--Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, David Abrams's FOBBIT and Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds--that represent the U.S. military responses to 9/11.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Resilience of Racist Language, Symbols and Rhetoric

One: Literature, Criticism and the Fetishization of Experience

Two: Kenneth Burke: A Method for War Literature

Three: Confounding Expectations in Kevin Powers's The Yellow Birds

Four: The Comic Corrective and Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn

Five: The Convenient Scapegoat in David Abrams's FOBBIT

Six: Representing Hajji: This Generation's Enemy "Other"

Conclusion

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index