Total Mobilization: World War II and American Literature

by Roy Scranton

Book Overview

Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero--the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence--has become omnipresent in America's narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political hegemony. In Total Mobilization, Roy Scranton cuts through the fog of trauma that obscures World War II, uncovering a lost history and reframing the way we talk about war today.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022663731X
• ISBN13: 9780226637310
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"