The Tropes of War: Visual Hyperbole and Spectacular Culture
This book examines the myriad ways in which war is culturally reassembled, appropriated, and commodified as it manifests itself in our culture and invades our public imagination and becomes an indelible part of our landscape through fashion, movies, graph
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137550774.0001
Also by Andrea Greenbaum JUDAIC PERSPECTIVES IN RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION STUDIES (edited with Deborah A. Holdstein, 2008) JEWS OF SOUTH FLORIDA (2005) THE EMANCIPATORY MOVEMENTS IN COMPOSITION: The Rhetoric of Possibility (2002) INSURRECTIONS: Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies (2001)
DOI: 10.1057/9781137550774.0001
The Tropes of War: Visual Hyperbole and Spectacular Culture Andrea Greenbaum Barry University, USA
DOI: 10.1057/9781137550774.0001
© Andrea Greenbaum 2015 Foreword © Joseph D. Harris 2015 Afterword © Michael J. Leitner 2015 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–1–137–55077–4 PDF ISBN: 978–1–349–57844–3 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. www.palgrave.com/pivot doi: 10.1057/9781137550774
For Ari Beloved Son, Adored Brother, Dutiful Soldier
DOI: 10.1057/9781137550774.0001
Contents
vi
List of Figures
vii
Foreword Joseph D. Harris
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
1 The Mother of All Tropes: Visual Hyperbole and the Middle East
8
2 War and the Graphic Novel: Memory as Enthymeme in Maus and Waltz with Bashir
20
3 The War Documentary: Restrepo and the Synecdoche of Masculinity
30
4 Metonymy of Peace: The Comic Book Peace Project
40
Conclusion: Living in the Age of Babel: War, Rhetoric, and the Perils of Hyperbole
56
Afterword Michael J. Leitner
59
Bibliography
62
Index
69
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List of Figures Frontispiece: Dog Tag (Yarden D. Cohen) U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945 (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal) 1.2 A person falls from the North Tower of New York
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