War Porn
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (661 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B017QLQ8B0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 545 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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. “War porn,” n. Videos, images, and narratives featuring graphic violence, often brought back from combat zones, viewed voyeuristically or for emotional gratification. Through the looking glass of War Porn, Scranton reveals the fragile humanity that connects Americans and Iraqis, torturers and the tortured, victors and their victims.. 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 sear
"A stunner" according to DJ Hurricane. 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. "Good Read But a Bit Over the Top" according to Fred J. Mauren. 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" according to Joankona1. This is the first book I have read that tells the truth about Iraq and the continual war there and in Afghanistan.
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. He served from 2002 to 2006, including a fourteen-month deployment to Iraq. After leaving the Army he earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree a
Scranton is a gifted writer." —Electric Literature "Brilliant."—The Rumpus"Necessary." —scene4 magazine"What impresses is the brutal immediacy of the writing, its authority. This examination of the tragedy of what happened in Iraq reaches out to touch of all us. There is much to admire here—the meticulous craftsmanship, the hysterical comic passages, the way the sheer audacity of vision is matched at every turn by the innovative skill to carry it out—but what I'm left with at the end is difficult