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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Dr. M. C. Armstrong (North Carolina A&T State University, USA)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 9798765112861Pages: 192 Publication Date: 03 October 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education 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 ContentsAcknowledgments 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 IndexReviewsThe first book project of this kind, Veteran Activism is an original piece of public-facing scholarship that is not only impeccably researched, theorized, and argued but also refreshingly interdisciplinary and accessibly written. Trailblazing in focus, approach, and conclusions, Armstrong brings rhetorical, critical-theoretical, and ethnographic methodologies to bear on the discourse of dissent permeating the fast-expanding body of work by post-9/11 American soldier-writers across a range of forms and media. * Christian Moraru, Class of 1949 Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA * Written from the double perspective of someone with academic expertise who also worked as an American journalist embedded with Special Operations Forces in Iraq, M.C. Armstrong offers fascinating insights into how American military veterans came to reconceptualize ideas of patriotic duty and homeland after 9/11. Starting with the famous case of Edward Snowden but also ranging across fiction writers such as Elliot Ackerman and Kevin Powers, Armstrong provides a compelling account of how these ‘veteran-activists’ engaged with a new era of ‘disidentity politics,’ where the old markers of allegiance were not so conceptually secure. This provocative book should provide food for thought and controversy not only in academic circles but also the wider public sphere. * Paul Giles, Professor of English, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, and author of The Global Remapping of American Literature * Author InformationM. C. Armstrong teaches English at the North Carolina A&T State University, USA, and is the author of The Mysteries of Haditha (2020), one of the “Best Books of 2020” (The Brooklyn Rail). Armstrong embedded with Joint Special Operations Forces in Al Anbar Province, Iraq in 2008, and has published extensively on the Iraq War through The Winchester Star. He is the winner of a Pushcart Prize, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Esquire, The Missouri Review, The Gettysburg Review, and other journals and anthologies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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