[ecrea] New book: Culture, Trauma, and Conflict Cultural Studies Perspectives on War (second & revised edition)

New book:
Culture, Trauma, and Conflict Cultural Studies Perspectives on War 
(second & revised edition)
Nico Carpentier (ed.)
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/culture-trauma-and-conflict-22

Book Description

War was pervasive in the 20th century, and the 21st century seems to 
hold little promise of improvement. War is still one of the world’s most 
destructive forces, which on a daily basis touches the lives of millions 
of people. To increase the understanding of the pervasiveness and 
destructiveness of the institution of war, all possible frameworks of 
knowledge must be mobilized. Cultural War Studies has an important role 
to play in adding to this knowledge, by putting the critical vocabulary 
of Cultural Studies to good use in analyzing the constructions that push 
us towards a glorified killing of fellow human beings and then try to 
make us forget the intensity and durability of the trauma. The first 
part of this book focuses on the diversity of the media that generate 
meanings and definitions of past and contemporary wars. These chapters 
are not restricted to the more traditional analyses of media content, 
but utilize these media products to reflect on contemporary cultural 
condition(s) in the USA and Europe. The second part of the book moves 
(at least partially) away from media representations and focuses on 
torture and incarceration. Although in this part, the materiality of war 
and conflict is very present, these analyses again show the importance 
of the constructions of enemy identities and of (the acceptability of) 
violent practices. The third and final part of the book is related to 
memory and trauma. A series of 20th century conflicts and wars are 
revisited to demonstrate the cultural durability of war and the 
interconnection of these wars with present-day discourses and practices 
through the dialectics of remembering, commemorating and forgetting.

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TOC

Introduction: Strengthening Cultural War Studies
Nico Carpentier

Part I: Media Representations of War

“Fort Living Room”: Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality, and Sentiment in the 
HBO Documentary Last Letters Home
Rebecca A. Adelman

Good Grief: The Cultural Work of Flightplan and the Vanishing Lady Tale
Christina Lane

Media, Genocide and Hotel Rwanda
Metasebia Woldemariam and Kylo-Patrick R. Hart

Photos for Access: War Pornography and USAmerica’s Practices of Power
Karen J. Hall

Part II: Incarceration and Torture

Abu Ghraib, War Media and the Gray Zones of Imperial Citizenship
Usha Zacharias

Torture: Alibi and Archetype in U.S. News and Legal Writing since 2001
Stephanie Athey

Part III: Trauma and memory

News Images as Lived Images: Witness, Performance, and the U.S. Flag 
after 9/11
Gordon Coonfield

American Infants: Coping with Trauma and becoming Historical in A Home 
at the End of the World and American Pastoral
Vincent Stephens

Life and Death in the Shadow of the A-Bomb: Sovereignty and Memory on 
the 60th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Marc Lafleur

Intersecting Traumas: The Holocaust, the Palestinian Occupation, and the 
Work of Israeli Journalist Amira Hass
Tina Wasserman

From Individual Tragedy to Societal Dislocation: The Filmic 
Representation of Tragedy, Dislocation, and Cultural Trauma in the 
Dreyfus Affair
Nico Carpentier

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New book:
Culture, Trauma, and Conflict: Cultural Studies Perspectives on War (second&  revised edition)
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/culture-trauma-and-conflict-22
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