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Combat Trauma - Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9/11 America (Paperback)
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Combat Trauma - Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9/11 America (Paperback)
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Americans have long been asked to support the troops and care for
veterans' psychological wounds. Who, though, does this injunction
serve? As acclaimed scholar Nadia Abu El-Haj argues here, in the
American public's imagination, the traumatized soldier stands in
for destructive wars abroad, with decisive ramifications in the
post-9/11 era. Across the political spectrum the language of
soldier trauma is used to discuss American warfare, producing a
narrative in which traumatized soldiers are the only acknowledged
casualties of war, while those killed by American firepower are
largely sidelined and forgotten. In this wide-ranging and
fascinating study of the meshing of medicine, science, and
politics, Abu El-Haj explores the concept of post-traumatic stress
disorder and the history of its medical diagnosis. While antiwar
Vietnam War veterans sought to address their psychological pain
even as they maintained full awareness of their guilt and
responsibility for perpetrating atrocities on the killing fields of
Vietnam, by the 1980s, a peculiar convergence of feminist activism
against sexual violence and Reagan's right-wing "war on crime"
transformed the idea of PTSD into a condition of victimhood. In so
doing, the meaning of Vietnam veterans' trauma would also shift,
moving away from a political space of reckoning with guilt and
complicity to one that cast them as blameless victims of a hostile
public upon their return home. This is how, in the post-9/11 era of
the Wars on Terror, the injunction to "support our troops," came to
both sustain US militarism and also shields American civilians from
the reality of wars fought ostensibly in their name. In this
compelling and crucial account, Nadia Abu El-Haj challenges us to
think anew about the devastations of the post-9/11 era.
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