War Porn
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.66 (605 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1616957158 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He grew up in Oregon, dropped out of college, and spent several years wandering the American West. Roy Scranton is the author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization, and co-editor of Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. After leaving the Army he earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree at the New School for Social Research, th
Though War Porn doesn’t set out to change anyone’s mind, it’s impossible to read it without reconsidering how you think about Iraq and our treatment of those who served." —New Republic "To read Scranton is to engage with a powerful intellect." —Los Angeles Review of Books"Scranton has a real aesthetic skill and is moved by a genuine sympathy for humanity. Roy Scranton’s War Porn expresses and helps advance the profound social anger that is emerging amidst the rumble of a society devastated by imperialist war." —World Soci
DJ Hurricane said A stunner. Rates right up there with the best of them, any war, ant time, any place, anyone. It ended earlier than I expected. Quick. A stunning flash bang of a story, down to the bone. Fred J. Mauren said Good Read But a Bit Over the Top. Interesting read. A bit over the top in use of violence and indictment of U.S. military. Draws together themes that many Iraqis were unwittingly subjected to harsh life changing events and that many Americans have little understanding of the conflict in Iraq.. War Porn Joankona1 This is the first book I have read that tells the truth about Iraq and the continual war there and in Afghanistan.
Videos, images, and narratives featuring graphic violence, often brought back from combat zones, viewed voyeuristically or for emotional gratification. Such media are often presented and circulated without context, though they may be used as evidence of war crimes. War porn is also, in Roy Scranton’s searing debut novel, a metaphor for the experience of war in the age of the War on Terror, the fracturing and fragmentation of perspective, time, and self that afflicts soldiers and civilians alike, and the global networks and face-to-face moments that suture our fragmented lives together. In War Porn three lives fit inside one another like nesting dolls: a restless young woman at an end-of-summer barbecue in Utah; an American soldier in occupied Baghdad; and Qasim al-Zabadi, an Iraqi math professor, who faces the US invasion of his country with fear, denial, and perseverance. As War Porn cuts from America to Iraq and back again, as home and hell merg