Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero--the noble white
man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence--has
become omnipresent in America's narratives of war, an imaginary
solution to the contradictions of American political hegemony. In
Total Mobilization, Roy Scranton cuts through the fog of trauma
that obscures World War II, uncovering a lost history and reframing
the way we talk about war today. Considering often overlooked works
by James Jones, Wallace Stevens, Martha Gellhorn, and others,
alongside cartoons and films, Scranton investigates the role of the
hero in industrial wartime, showing how such writers struggled to
make sense of problems that continue to plague us today: the limits
of American power, the dangers of political polarization, and the
conflicts between nationalism and liberalism. By turning our
attention to the ways we make war meaningful--and by excavating the
politics implicit within the myth of the traumatized hero--Total
Mobilization revises the way we understand not only World War II,
but all of postwar American culture.
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