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Figuring Violence explores the roles of imagination and affects like apprehension, affection, admiration, gratitude, pity, and anger in sustaining contemporary American militarism. The book charts the politics of wartime sentimental investment in civilian children, military children, military spouses, veterans with PTSD and TBI, Guantánamo Bay detainees, and military dogs.

Table of Contents

On the Cover Image: “Vertigo at Guantanamo” ix
Introduction: Fabricated Connections, Deeply Felt 1
1. Envisioning Civilian Childhood 27
2. Affective Pedagogies for Military Children 52
3. Recognizing Military Wives 88
4. Economies of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury 137
5. Liberal Imaginaries of Guantánamo 178
6. Feeling for Dogs in the War on Terror 212
Conclusion: A Radical and Unsentimental Attention 245
Acknowledgments 251
Notes 257
Index 329

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/11/2018
      ISBN13: 9780823281688, 978-0823281688
      ISBN10: 082328168X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Figuring Violence explores the roles of imagination and affects like apprehension, affection, admiration, gratitude, pity, and anger in sustaining contemporary American militarism. The book charts the politics of wartime sentimental investment in civilian children, military children, military spouses, veterans with PTSD and TBI, Guantánamo Bay detainees, and military dogs.

      Table of Contents

      On the Cover Image: “Vertigo at Guantanamo” ix
      Introduction: Fabricated Connections, Deeply Felt 1
      1. Envisioning Civilian Childhood 27
      2. Affective Pedagogies for Military Children 52
      3. Recognizing Military Wives 88
      4. Economies of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury 137
      5. Liberal Imaginaries of Guantánamo 178
      6. Feeling for Dogs in the War on Terror 212
      Conclusion: A Radical and Unsentimental Attention 245
      Acknowledgments 251
      Notes 257
      Index 329

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