{"product_id":"veteran-activism-and-the-global-war-on-terror-post-9-11-narratives-of-dissent-and-american-war-literature-9798765112854","title":"Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror: Post-9\/11 Narratives of Dissent and American War Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): M. C. Armstrong\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVeteran Activism and the Global War on Terror\u003c\/i\u003e is the first study of the literature of dissent that has emerged from the veterans of the global War on Terror.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpencer Ackerman's \u003ci\u003eReign of Terror \u003c\/i\u003estated 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.\" \u003ci\u003eVeteran Activism and the Global War on Terror\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChapters 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 \u003ci\u003eVeteran Activism and the Global War on Terror\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47593349185687,"sku":"9798765112854","price":3700.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798765112854.webp?v=1774981535","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/veteran-activism-and-the-global-war-on-terror-post-9-11-narratives-of-dissent-and-american-war-literature-9798765112854","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}