The Resource War porn, Roy Scranton
War porn, Roy Scranton
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The item War porn, Roy Scranton represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- ""War porn," n. Videos, images, and narratives featuring graphic violence, often brought back from combat zones, viewed voyeuristically or for emotional gratification. 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 searing debut novel, a metaphor for the experience of war in the age of the War on Terror, the fracturing and fragmentation of perspective, time, and self that afflicts soldiers and civilians alike, and the global networks and face-to-face moments that suture our fragmented lives together. 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. As War Porn cuts from America to Iraq and back again, as home and hell merge, we come to see America through the eyes of the occupied, even as we see Qasim become a prisoner of the occupation. 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- War porn
- Title
- War porn
- Statement of responsibility
- Roy Scranton
- Subject
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- War fiction
- War fiction
- trueWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009
- 2003-2011
- trueAmericans in Iraq
- trueCollege teachers
- Combat -- Psychological aspects
- Combat -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction
- trueCoping
- FICTION -- Literary
- FICTION -- Psychological
- FICTION -- War & Military
- Fiction
- Iraq
- trueIraq
- Iraq War (2003-2011)
- trueIraq War, 2003-2011
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction
- Psychological aspects
- trueSoldiers
- trueUtah
- trueWar and society
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- ""War porn," n. Videos, images, and narratives featuring graphic violence, often brought back from combat zones, viewed voyeuristically or for emotional gratification. 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 searing debut novel, a metaphor for the experience of war in the age of the War on Terror, the fracturing and fragmentation of perspective, time, and self that afflicts soldiers and civilians alike, and the global networks and face-to-face moments that suture our fragmented lives together. 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. As War Porn cuts from America to Iraq and back again, as home and hell merge, we come to see America through the eyes of the occupied, even as we see Qasim become a prisoner of the occupation. 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"--
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- Provided by publisher
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- 10491179
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1976-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Scranton, Roy
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Iraq War (2003-2011)
- Iraq War, 2003-2011
- Combat
- FICTION
- FICTION
- FICTION
- Combat
- Psychological aspects
- Iraq
- Label
- War porn, Roy Scranton
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1648345
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 343 pages
- Isbn
- 9781616957155
- Lccn
- 2016011288
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781616957155
- (OCoLC)929048858
- Label
- War porn, Roy Scranton
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1648345
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 343 pages
- Isbn
- 9781616957155
- Lccn
- 2016011288
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781616957155
- (OCoLC)929048858
Subject
- War fiction
- War fiction
- trueWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009
- 2003-2011
- trueAmericans in Iraq
- trueCollege teachers
- Combat -- Psychological aspects
- Combat -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction
- trueCoping
- FICTION -- Literary
- FICTION -- Psychological
- FICTION -- War & Military
- Fiction
- Iraq
- trueIraq
- Iraq War (2003-2011)
- trueIraq War, 2003-2011
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction
- Psychological aspects
- trueSoldiers
- trueUtah
- trueWar and society
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