侧翼机动:菲尔·克雷《行动后报告》和《战争故事》对军事无意识的反叙事

IF 0.1 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Ari Räisänen
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本文探讨了菲尔·克莱的短篇小说《行动后报告》和《战争故事》产生反叙事的方式,这些反叙事挑战并割裂了民粹主义对军人、战争和美国性的描述。通过这样做,分析揭示了处理当代美国军民脱节的新方法。这篇文章在一个基于弗雷德里克·詹姆森理论的框架中审视了这种脱节,揭示了文本潜在的军事无意识:一种源自退伍军人和现役人员生活在社会现实中的政治无意识。军事无意识得到了我所说的霸权士兵的补充:这种意识形态结构为士兵和战争的主流文化表征提供了信息,并通过类似于怀旧娱乐理念的表征来强化自己。通过运用这些概念,分析可以揭示源于文本军事无意识的反叙事。第一个案例研究考察了克莱的《行动后报告》通过提供替代话语来打破军事机构关于杀戮的霸权话语的方式,这些话语允许士兵主体抵抗霸权士兵,并重申对他们经历的所有权。第二个案例研究考察了《战争故事》如何揭示和批判当代美国社会中霸权士兵的潜在存在。霸权战士被证明是一股无所不在的力量,甚至出现在试图颠覆它的叙事中。这些案例研究共同展示了资深文学在理解当代美国文化发展方面的独特潜力。
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Flanking Maneuvers: The Counternarratives of the Military Unconscious in Phil Klay's “After Action Report” and “War Stories”
This article examines the ways in which Phil Klay’s short stories “After Action Report” and “War Stories” generate counternarratives that challenge and fragment populist representations of soldiering, war, and Americanness. In doing so, the analysis reveals new ways of approaching the contemporary American civilian-military disconnect. The article examines this disconnect in a framework based on Fredric Jameson’s theories that reveals the text’s underlying military unconscious: a type of political unconscious that rises from the lived-in social realities of veterans and active duty personnel. The military unconscious is complemented by what I term the hegemonic soldier: the ideological construct which informs the dominant cultural representations of soldiering and war, and which reinforces itself through representations in a fashion similar to the idea of nostalgic recreation. By applying these concepts, the analysis can uncover the counternarratives that stem from the texts’ military unconscious. The first case study examines the ways in which Klay’s “After Action Report” ruptures the military institution’s hegemonic discourse of killing by providing alternative discourses that allow the soldier subject to resist the hegemonic soldier, and reassert ownership over their experiences. The second case study examines how “War Stories” reveals and critiques the latent presence of the hegemonic soldier in contemporary American society. The hegemonic soldier is shown to be an omnipresent force that appears even in narratives that seek to subvert it. Together, the case studies demonstrate veteran literature’s unique potential in understanding the development of contemporary American culture.
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AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA
AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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期刊介绍: American Studies in Scandinavia, the journal of the Nordic Association for American Studies, is published twice each year, and carries scholarly articles and reviews on a wide range of American Studies topics and disciplines, including history, literature, politics, geography, media, language, diplomacy, race, ethnicity, economics, law, culture and society. American Studies in Scandinavia is sponsored by the National Councils for Research in Science and the Humanities in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, the journal is published by Odense University Press with the financial support of the Nordic Publications Committee for Humanist Periodicals.
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