Fighting Sleep - The War for the Mind and the Us Military

Informationen zum Autor Franny Nudelman Klappentext On 21 April, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mall, having fought the courts for the right to sleep in public as part of their week-long demonstration. When the Supreme Court denied their petition, veterans decided to break the law and turned sleep into a form of direct action.During and after WWII, military psychiatrists used sleep therapies to treat an epidemic of traumatised soldiers who suffered from "combat fatigue." Inducing deep and twilight sleep in clinical settings, they studied the effects of war violence on the mind and developed the techniques of brainwashing that would weaponise both memory and sleep. In the Vietnam era, radical veterans reclaimed the authority to interpret their own traumatic symptoms--nightmares, flashbacks, insomnia--and pioneered new methods of protest.In Sleeping Soldiers , Franny Nudelman recounts the struggle over sleep in the decades following WWII, arguing that the sleep of soldiers was instrumental to the development of military science, professional psychiatry, and anti-war activism. Traversing the fields of military and mainstream psychiatry, popular and institutional film, documentary sound technology, brain warfare, and postwar social movements, she demonstrates that sleep, far from passive, empty, or null, is a site of contention and a source of political agency. Zusammenfassung How the military used sleep as a weapon-and how soldiers fought back

Info autore

Franny Nudelman is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University in Ottawa, where she teaches US culture and history. She is the author of John Brown’s Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War, and coeditor, with Sara Blair and Joseph Entin, of Remaking Reality: U.S. Documentary Culture after 1945.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Franny Nudelman, Franny Nudelman, Nudelman Franny
• Editore: Verso
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 08.10.2019
• EAN: 9781786637819
• ISBN: 978-1-78663-781-9
• Pagine: 160
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia applicata; History: theory & methods, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, Sleep disorders & therapy, Sleep disorders and therapy, MEDICAL / Sleep Medicine, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science, History: theory and methods, MEDICAL / Military Medicine, Sleep; Trauma; PTSD; Military; Psychiatry; Brainwashing