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Enduring Operations: Narratives of the Contemporary Wars
- MFS Modern Fiction Studies
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 63, Number 2, Summer 2017
- pp. 203-224
- 10.1353/mfs.2017.0019
- Article
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Abstract:
In this introduction, we situate the contributors to this special issue within a nascent critical engagement with contemporary war narratives. We are interested in exploring the consequences of the dissolving distinction between battlespaces and domestic spaces and between military and civilian life; the changing ways we understand the chronology and finitude of war; the various iterations of trauma; the racialization and gendering of war; and the multifarious uses of combat technologies.