Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror: Post-9/11 Narratives of Dissent and American War Literature
Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror is the first study of the literature of dissent that has emerged from the veterans of the global War on Terror.

Spencer Ackerman's Reign of Terror stated that “The most impactful activism against the War on Terror came from within the Security State itself . . . low ranking soldiers and intelligence contractors whose exposure to the war prompted them to expose it to the world.” Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror examines this subculture of veterans whose stories have dramatically shifted the conversation about literature and activism. Author M. C. Armstrong introduces and explores America's post-9/11 soldier-writers, a community that challenges pivotal contemporary assumptions about allegiance, democracy, geography, solidarity, and national identity.

Chapters are organized around a triad of core concepts–parrhesia, cosmopolitanism, and dissensus–and discuss authors including Elliot Ackerman, Kristin Beck, Joseph Hickman, Phil Klay, Kevin Powers, and Edward Snowden. Armstrong argues that this scene represents a literary movement and perhaps the most significant literary community since the Beat Generation, and Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror reads the work of these writers as the loci of a “dissenting” overhaul of the official narratives and rhetorical maps that chart the United States' Global War on Terror.
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Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror: Post-9/11 Narratives of Dissent and American War Literature
Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror is the first study of the literature of dissent that has emerged from the veterans of the global War on Terror.

Spencer Ackerman's Reign of Terror stated that “The most impactful activism against the War on Terror came from within the Security State itself . . . low ranking soldiers and intelligence contractors whose exposure to the war prompted them to expose it to the world.” Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror examines this subculture of veterans whose stories have dramatically shifted the conversation about literature and activism. Author M. C. Armstrong introduces and explores America's post-9/11 soldier-writers, a community that challenges pivotal contemporary assumptions about allegiance, democracy, geography, solidarity, and national identity.

Chapters are organized around a triad of core concepts–parrhesia, cosmopolitanism, and dissensus–and discuss authors including Elliot Ackerman, Kristin Beck, Joseph Hickman, Phil Klay, Kevin Powers, and Edward Snowden. Armstrong argues that this scene represents a literary movement and perhaps the most significant literary community since the Beat Generation, and Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror reads the work of these writers as the loci of a “dissenting” overhaul of the official narratives and rhetorical maps that chart the United States' Global War on Terror.
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Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror: Post-9/11 Narratives of Dissent and American War Literature

Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror: Post-9/11 Narratives of Dissent and American War Literature

by M. C. Armstrong
Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror: Post-9/11 Narratives of Dissent and American War Literature

Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror: Post-9/11 Narratives of Dissent and American War Literature

by M. C. Armstrong

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Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror is the first study of the literature of dissent that has emerged from the veterans of the global War on Terror.

Spencer Ackerman's Reign of Terror stated that “The most impactful activism against the War on Terror came from within the Security State itself . . . low ranking soldiers and intelligence contractors whose exposure to the war prompted them to expose it to the world.” Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror examines this subculture of veterans whose stories have dramatically shifted the conversation about literature and activism. Author M. C. Armstrong introduces and explores America's post-9/11 soldier-writers, a community that challenges pivotal contemporary assumptions about allegiance, democracy, geography, solidarity, and national identity.

Chapters are organized around a triad of core concepts–parrhesia, cosmopolitanism, and dissensus–and discuss authors including Elliot Ackerman, Kristin Beck, Joseph Hickman, Phil Klay, Kevin Powers, and Edward Snowden. Armstrong argues that this scene represents a literary movement and perhaps the most significant literary community since the Beat Generation, and Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror reads the work of these writers as the loci of a “dissenting” overhaul of the official narratives and rhetorical maps that chart the United States' Global War on Terror.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798765112878
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 09/05/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 658 KB

About the Author

M. 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.
M. C. Armstrong is the author of The Mysteries of Haditha, published in 2020 by Potomac Books. The Brooklyn Rail called The Mysteries of Haditha one of the “Best Books of 2020.” Armstrong, who grew up in Winchester, Virginia, embedded with Joint Special Operations Forces in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, in 2008. He 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. He is the holder of both a PhD and MFA and teaches English at North Carolina A&T State University, USA. You can follow him @mcarmystrong.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

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
Index
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