Camp No and soldier-writers: disidentification and ethical remapping in post-9/11 narratives of dissent
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Matthew C. Armstrong (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Christian Moraru
Abstract: America’s post-9/11 soldier-writers challenge pivotal contemporary assumptions about allegiance, solidarity, national identity, and the political-emotional maps of responsibility and belonging that artists, activists, and citizens at large draw up mentally as they picture their affiliations with and duties to their community, territory, country, or state institution. Organized around a triad of concepts (parrhesia, cosmopolitanism, and dissensus), this project argues that this generation of writers represents a significant literary movement. Specifically, I read their work as the loci of a “dissenting” overhauling of the official narratives and rhetorical maps that chart the United States’ Global War on Terror.
Camp No and soldier-writers: disidentification and ethical remapping in post-9/11 narratives of dissent
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 2021
- Keywords
- Cosmopolitanism, Dissensus, Parrhesia, Soldier-Writers, The Forever War, War on Terror
- Subjects
- American literature $y 21st century $x History and criticism
- Veterans' writings, American $x History and criticism
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 $x Influence
- Dissenters in literature