The cult of the victim veteran : MAGA fantasies in lost-war America /
"In this book we see the long historical threads woven for MAGA: the twining of traditional and modern ways of knowing that imbues war trauma with political and cultural properties that complicate its diagnostic use; the post-WWI disclosure that many Shell Shock patients had never been exposed...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2023.
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| Summary: | "In this book we see the long historical threads woven for MAGA: the twining of traditional and modern ways of knowing that imbues war trauma with political and cultural properties that complicate its diagnostic use; the post-WWI disclosure that many Shell Shock patients had never been exposed to exploding shells, and the use of wounded-veteran imagery to fan the flames of German fascism; the cultural necessity of reimaging antiwar Vietnam veterans as psychiatric casualties that calls forth a new diagnostic category, PTSD; the derivatizing of PTSD for TBI, Agent Orange, and Moral Injury; and the victim-veteran figure as metaphor for a wounded America, for which MAGA is the remedy"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 120 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781032490267 1032490268 9781032490243 1032490241 |