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OverviewThis book focuses on American political discourse connected to war, dissent, and empathy. Through interdisciplinary methods of history, politics and media studies, the book examines ways in which American self-identity alters as a consequence of media portrayal of human suffering and of its existential others. It compares representations of the Iraq wars to earlier precedents and looks at the work of American activists, assessing how narratives and images of human suffering in new media iconography generate empathic attitudes towards others. This comparative, multimodal study helps to explain shifting self-identities within the U.S, and relationally through the representation of the Arab other presenting an original and historicised contribution to the media-war field of academic and public debate. The book underscores empathy as a vibrant category of analysis that expands how we think about West-Arab relations, revealing how understanding the cultural aspects of this conflictual interrelationship needs to be broadened. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Osman LatiffPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2021 Weight: 0.436kg ISBN: 9783030767464ISBN 10: 3030767469 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 29 June 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction Considering Adorno, Giroux and the Search for Empathy in War.- The Case of Alyssa Peterson Finding Empathy in The Cage.- Distance as othering US images of conflict inside and outside the homeland.- Landscaping Otherness and challenging frames of nothingness in contemporary Palestine.- The Mahmudiyah Killings and the framing of Abeer.- Syncretic Modes in Imagined Mourning These are Our Deaths.ReviewsAuthor InformationOsman Latiff, Ph.D. (2011), Royal Holloway, University of London, is a researcher in medieval and crusader history. He was recipient of the Isobel Thornley Fellowship (2010) and is the author of ‘The Cutting Edge of the Poet’s Sword: Muslim Poetic Responses to the Crusades’ (Brill, 2018). He completed a Post-doctorate study on counter-hegemony and political syncretism in Arab/U.S relations (2013) and has written and continues to write academic papers in the field of history, religion, war and empathy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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