{"product_id":"veteran-activism-and-the-global-war-on-terror-post-9-11-narratives-of-dissent-and-american-war-literature-paperback","title":"Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror: Post-9\/11 Narratives of Dissent and American War Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eM. C. Armstrong\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVeteran Activism and the Global War on Terror\u003c\/i\u003e is the first study of the literature of dissent that has emerged from the veterans of the global War on Terror.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpencer Ackerman's \u003ci\u003eReign of Terror \u003c\/i\u003estated that \"The most impactful activism against the War on Terror came from within the Security State itself . . . low ranking soldiers and intelligence contractors whose exposure to the war prompted them to expose it to the world.\" \u003ci\u003eVeteran Activism and the Global War on Terror\u003c\/i\u003e examines this subculture of veterans whose stories have dramatically shifted the conversation about literature and activism. Author M. C. Armstrong introduces and explores America's post-9\/11 soldier-writers, a community that challenges pivotal contemporary assumptions about allegiance, democracy, geography, solidarity, and national identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChapters are organized around a triad of core concepts-parrhesia, cosmopolitanism, and dissensus-and discuss authors including Elliot Ackerman, Kristin Beck, Joseph Hickman, Phil Klay, Kevin Powers, and Edward Snowden. Armstrong argues that this scene represents a literary movement and perhaps the most significant literary community since the Beat Generation, and \u003ci\u003eVeteran Activism and the Global War on Terror\u003c\/i\u003e reads the work of these writers as the loci of a \"dissenting\" overhaul of the official narratives and rhetorical maps that chart the United States' Global War on Terror.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eM. C. Armstrong\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina A\u0026amp;T State University, USA, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mysteries of Haditha \u003c\/i\u003e(2020), one of the \"Best Books of 2020\" (The Brooklyn Rail). Armstrong embedded with Joint Special Operations Forces in Al Anbar Province, Iraq in 2008, and has published extensively on the Iraq War through \u003ci\u003eThe Winchester Star.\u003c\/i\u003e He is the winner of a Pushcart Prize, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in \u003ci\u003eEsquire, The Missouri Review, The Gettysburg Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and other journals and anthologies. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 19, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45538986131558,"sku":"9798765112854","price":81.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/8uVhAurdMp9798765112854.webp?v=1776847849","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/veteran-activism-and-the-global-war-on-terror-post-9-11-narratives-of-dissent-and-american-war-literature-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}