Biography of Killing: Veterans Remember the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Q1 Arts and Humanities

a/b: Auto/Biography Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-27 DOI:10.1080/08989575.2022.2133331

Marian Eide

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Abstract

Abstract As Joanna Bourke memorably observes: “The characteristic act of men at war not dying, it is killing.” 1 While many soldiers have killed in war without experiencing any significant psychological or ethical challenges, others, even those who kill in conditions justified militarily in the combat context, suffer the results not only of post-traumatic stress, but (less understood) of moral injury. Having killed places a combatant on the other side of an ontological divide. How do veterans who have undergone this kind of extreme and transformative experience understand themselves after experiencing the limit event of killing? The ways that veterans describe killing can inflect our understanding of life writing.

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《杀戮传记:退伍军人铭记伊拉克和阿富汗战争

正如乔安娜·伯克令人难忘的观察:“战争中男人的典型行为不是死亡，而是杀戮。虽然许多士兵在战争中杀戮时没有经历任何重大的心理或道德挑战，但其他人，甚至是那些在战斗背景下在军事上合理的条件下杀戮的人，不仅遭受创伤后压力，而且(不太为人所知)遭受道德伤害。杀戮将战士置于本体论分歧的另一边。经历过这种极端和变革经历的退伍军人在经历了杀戮的极限事件后如何理解自己?退伍军人描述杀戮的方式会影响我们对生活写作的理解。

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a/b: Auto/Biography Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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期刊介绍： a /b: Auto/Biography Studies enjoys an international reputation for publishing the highest level of peer-reviewed scholarship in the fields of autobiography, biography, life narrative, and identity studies. a/b draws from a diverse community of global scholars to publish essays that further the scholarly discourse on historic and contemporary auto/biographical narratives. For over thirty years, the journal has pushed ongoing conversations in the field in new directions and charted an innovative path into interdisciplinary and multimodal narrative analysis. The journal accepts submissions of scholarly essays, review essays, and book reviews of critical and theoretical texts as well as proposals for special issues and essay clusters. Submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to independent, anonymous peer review.