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Author: Martin Danahay
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.027kg
ISBN: 9781978819191
ISBN 10: 1978819196
Pages: 154
Publication Date: 18 March 2022
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""War Without Bodies contributes to an important and ongoing effort to understand—and to challenge— the myriad ways in which a culture of war has been historically normalized as a function of “new” technologies of representation. Martin Danahay illustrates how the illusion of a “war without bodies” complicates our capacity to engage the trauma of war by sanitizing its violence and undermining the very possibility of grieveable bodies, whether soldiers or civilians. -- John Louis Lucaites * co-editor of In/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America * ""Danahay offers a pacifist's lament, not only for the victims of war, but for their systematic erasure from its representation. War Without Bodies documents the history of this practice, explores its lethal consequences, and urges its readers toward an alternative visuality."" -- Rebecca Adelman * author of Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War * ""You might not think to draw a line from Tennyson to Dungeons and Dragons, but that's the gift of this book. With great erudition, Danahay carefully folds historical epochs and disparate practices into one another, adding layers of richness to the old question of how war has figured the body."" -- Roger Stahl * author of Through the Crosshairs: War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze * ""War Without Bodies contributes to an important and ongoing effort to understand—and to challenge— the myriad ways in which a culture of war has been historically normalized as a function of “new” technologies of representation. Martin Danahay illustrates how the illusion of a “war without bodies” complicates our capacity to engage the trauma of war by sanitizing its violence and undermining the very possibility of grieveable bodies, whether soldiers or civilians. -- John Louis Lucaites * co-editor of In/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America * ""Danahay offers a pacifist's lament, not only for the victims of war, but for their systematic erasure from its representation. War Without Bodies documents the history of this practice, explores its lethal consequences, and urges its readers toward an alternative visuality."" -- Rebecca Adelman * author of Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War * ""You might not think to draw a line from Tennyson to Dungeons and Dragons, but that's the gift of this book. With great erudition, Danahay carefully folds historical epochs and disparate practices into one another, adding layers of richness to the old question of how war has figured the body."" -- Roger Stahl * author of Through the Crosshairs: War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze *"
Danahay offers a pacifist's lament, not only for the victims of war, but for their systematic erasure from its representation. War Without Bodies documents the history of this practice, explores its lethal consequences, and urges its readers toward an alternative visuality. --Rebecca Adelman author of Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War War Without Bodies contributes to an important and ongoing effort to understand--and to challenge-- the myriad ways in which a culture of war has been historically normalized as a function of new technologies of representation. Martin Danahay illustrates how the illusion of a war without bodies complicates our capacity to engage the trauma of war by sanitizing its violence and undermining the very possibility of grieveable bodies, whether soldiers or civilians.--John Louis Lucaites co-editor of In/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America
"""War Without Bodies contributes to an important and ongoing effort to understand—and to challenge— the myriad ways in which a culture of war has been historically normalized as a function of “new” technologies of representation. Martin Danahay illustrates how the illusion of a “war without bodies” complicates our capacity to engage the trauma of war by sanitizing its violence and undermining the very possibility of grieveable bodies, whether soldiers or civilians.— John Louis Lucaites, co-editor of In/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America ""Danahay offers a pacifist's lament, not only for the victims of war, but for their systematic erasure from its representation. War Without Bodies documents the history of this practice, explores its lethal consequences, and urges its readers toward an alternative visuality.""— Rebecca Adelman, author of Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War ""You might not think to draw a line from Tennyson to Dungeons and Dragons, but that's the gift of this book. With great erudition, Danahay carefully folds historical epochs and disparate practices into one another, adding layers of richness to the old question of how war has figured the body.""— Roger Stahl, author of Through the Crosshairs: War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze ""Danahay offers a pacifist's lament, not only for the victims of war, but for their systematic erasure from its representation. War Without Bodies documents the history of this practice, explores its lethal consequences, and urges its readers toward an alternative visuality.""— Rebecca Adelman, author of Figuring Violence: Affective Investments in Perpetual War ""You might not think to draw a line from Tennyson to Dungeons and Dragons, but that's the gift of this book. With great erudition, Danahay carefully folds historical epochs and disparate practices into one another, adding layers of richness to the old question of how war has figured the body.""— Roger Stahl, author of Through the Crosshairs: War, Visual Culture, and the Weaponized Gaze ""War Without Bodies contributes to an important and ongoing effort to understand—and to challenge— the myriad ways in which a culture of war has been historically normalized as a function of “new” technologies of representation. Martin Danahay illustrates how the illusion of a “war without bodies” complicates our capacity to engage the trauma of war by sanitizing its violence and undermining the very possibility of grieveable bodies, whether soldiers or civilians.— John Louis Lucaites, co-editor of In/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America"
Author Information
MARTIN A. DANAHAY is a professor of English at Brock University in Canada. He is the author of Gender at Work in Victorian Culture: Literature, Art and Masculinity and A Community of One: Masculine Autobiography and Autonomy in Nineteenth Century Britain.
