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Warscapes: Mapping the American War in Iraq through Literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Warscapes: Mapping the American War in Iraq through Literature./
Author:	Buckley, Meghan B.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	200 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-12, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-12B.
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28418669
ISBN:	9798516061202

Warscapes: Mapping the American War in Iraq through Literature.
Buckley, Meghan B.

Warscapes: Mapping the American War in Iraq through Literature. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 200 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-12, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Environmental setting and contact with the natural world is an often-overlooked motif within the war literature canon in favor of analyses of individual heroism, comradeship, and personal trauma. However, ecology and physical setting play an integral role in contemporary memoirs, blogs, and fiction about the Iraq War. My dissertation therefore reframes landscape from a backdrop where the action of war takes place to a central metaphor for examining the way that war changes the spaces in which it is fought both ephemerally and permanently; or, put another way, produces a new pseudo-physical terrain that I term the "warscape." I contend that this attention to nature and place is useful because it allows readers to comprehend the Global War on Terror as a physical conflict, contrasting its more commonplace narrative of techno-supremacy and its characterization as a "smart war" that used fourth generation warfare such as drones, cyberattacks, and chemical/nuclear weapons, without real or lasting environmental impact. In doing so, my dissertation asks readers to compare the way that Iraq's contemporary and ancient landscapes are narratively situated against an analysis of Iraq's real-life physical layout and combat zones and questions the extent to which we should focus on individuals' traumas within the context of the war at the expense of disregarding the environmental and ecological damage that the military wages in the countries it invades. Pointedly, my dissertation's premise acknowledges that this idea of landscape manifests in multitudes-naturally and ecologically, predominantly, but also in terms of [narrative] setting and place. In moving the focus away from the individual trauma suffered by soldiers and civilians of the Iraq War and focusing instead on where and why these traumas occurred, my study aims to objectively situate landscape and setting as an alternative model for theorizing both trauma and the geological effects of war in literary form, revealing the multilayered voices and subject positions that narrate it.

ISBN: 9798516061202Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Ecocriticism

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