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, graphic novels, television etc.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword, by Joseph D. Harris
Introduction
1. The Mother of All Tropes: Visual Hyperbole and the Middle East
2. War and the Graphic Novel: Memory as Enthymeme in and
3. The War Documentary: and the Synecdoche of Masculinity
4. Metonymy of Peace: The Comic Book Peace Project
Conclusion: 'Living in the Age of Babel: War, Rhetoric, and the Perils of Hyberbole'
Afterword, by Michael J. Leitner