Når militæret skriver krigshistorier

En analyse af David Abrams’ Fobbit

Forfattere

  • Christine Strandmose Toft

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/pas.v33i80.111723

Nøgleord:

krigslitteratur, Irakkrigen, affekt, affektteori, Sianne Ngai, Alenka Zupančič, komisk latter, militærkritik

Resumé

Christine Strandmose Toft: “When the Military Writes War Stories. A Reading of David Abrams’ Fobbit
This article examines David Abram’s novel Fobbit (2012), a satirical comedy about Chance Gooding who works as a public affairs officer in the Army. First part of the article concerns the representation of the military’s attempt to represent war and asks why it is of paramount importance to the military to control the public’s view of the Iraq War. The second part considers the novel as meta-representation and discusses the kind of laughter it produces and its critical potential.

Downloads

Publiceret

2018-12-23

Citation/Eksport

Toft, C. S. (2018). Når militæret skriver krigshistorier: En analyse af David Abrams’ Fobbit. Passage - Tidsskrift for Litteratur Og Kritik, 33(80), 61–73. https://doi.org/10.7146/pas.v33i80.111723

Nummer

Sektion

Artikler