Rhetoric, Fantasy, and the War on Terror

Informationen zum Autor Vaheed Ramazani is the Kathryn B. Gore Professor of French Studies at Tulane University. His research interests include French literature and culture, critical theory, and critical international relations. He is the author of The Free Indirect Mode: Flaubert and the Poetics of Irony (Virginia) and Writing in Pain: Literature, History, and the Culture of Denial (Palgrave). Klappentext Drawing on psychoanalytic and semiotic perspectives, this book examines discourses mediating the global War on Terror, including governmental speeches, legal documents, print and broadcast journalism, and military memoirs. The book argues that these discourses motivate, and are motivated by, a myth of imminent harm that purportedly justifies a series of "preemptive" measures such as war, torture, and targeted killing, as well as an array of intrusive domestic security procedures such as profiling and mass surveillance. Dominant themes include selective compassion in the mainstream media, the language of war and the sacrificial sublime, asymmetrical warfare and the nostalgia for total war, weaponized drones and just war theory, and the role of American exceptionalism in normalizing endless war.Scholars and students alike will take interest in this original contribution to the fields of cultural studies, psychoanalysis, media studies, rhetoric, critical international relations, and international humanitarian law and ethics. Zusammenfassung The book draws on psychoanalytic and semiotic perspectives to examine popular, political, legal, and journalistic discourses mediating the War on Terror under the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: "No Moment for Deliberation" 2. War Fatigue: Ethics in Reporting on Afghanistan and Iraq 3. War, Simulation, and the Sacrificial Sublime 4. Exceptionalism, Metaphor, and Hybrid Warfare 5. Killer Drones and the Language of International Law ...

Product details

• Authors: Vaheed Ramazani, Ramazani Vaheed
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2020
• EAN: 9780367554064
• ISBN: 978-0-367-55406-4
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Press & journalism, Communication Studies, News media and journalism, Media studies: Journalism