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What We Talk About When We Talk About War

Noah Richler

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Description:“I have to say that I was stunned by Richler's courage and insight: if he were our Prime Minister, there would never have been an Afghanistan!” — Stephen Lewis, former Canadian Ambassador to the UN“You don’t have to agree with everything Noah Richler says—I don’t—but you must take him seriously.” — Margaret MacMillan, author of Paris 1919“A tonic to the spirit, Richler’s book explores the rootedness of Canadian values and connects them to the experience of life in an enormous and damn lucky country.” — James Laxer, author of Tecumseh and Brock: the War of 1812In the last decade, Canada's operative myth of a peacekeeping nation has been replaced by that of a "warrior" nation. With it, the idea of the Canadian soldier as peacekeeper has been transformed into the Canadian solider as confident and able war-maker.On the eve of Canada's exit from Afghanistan, Noah Richler, in this expanded version of his provocative 2009 Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye Lecture, examines how the governing narrative used by politicians, the military, and the media has evolved from the novel's more subversive constitution of the world into an epic narrative form. This form, and the associated jargon (victory, defeat, heroes, remembrance, sacrifice), and its clear distinction between good and evil have populated public pronouncements and media coverage, resulting in a revised national mythology and a re-interpretation of the events of past wars. Richler suggests that our changing narrative about war speaks volumes about our collective consciousness and how we have conceived and redefined ourselves as a nation as we talked ourselves into, through, and ultimately out of our participation in war.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with What We Talk About When We Talk About War. To get started finding What We Talk About When We Talk About War, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 372

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Goose Lane Editions

Release: 2012

ISBN: 0864926227

Description: “I have to say that I was stunned by Richler's courage and insight: if he were our Prime Minister, there would never have been an Afghanistan!” — Stephen Lewis, former Canadian Ambassador to the UN“You don’t have to agree with everything Noah Richler says—I don’t—but you must take him seriously.” — Margaret MacMillan, author of Paris 1919“A tonic to the spirit, Richler’s book explores the rootedness of Canadian values and connects them to the experience of life in an enormous and damn lucky country.” — James Laxer, author of Tecumseh and Brock: the War of 1812In the last decade, Canada's operative myth of a peacekeeping nation has been replaced by that of a "warrior" nation. With it, the idea of the Canadian soldier as peacekeeper has been transformed into the Canadian solider as confident and able war-maker.On the eve of Canada's exit from Afghanistan, Noah Richler, in this expanded version of his provocative 2009 Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye Lecture, examines how the governing narrative used by politicians, the military, and the media has evolved from the novel's more subversive constitution of the world into an epic narrative form. This form, and the associated jargon (victory, defeat, heroes, remembrance, sacrifice), and its clear distinction between good and evil have populated public pronouncements and media coverage, resulting in a revised national mythology and a re-interpretation of the events of past wars. Richler suggests that our changing narrative about war speaks volumes about our collective consciousness and how we have conceived and redefined ourselves as a nation as we talked ourselves into, through, and ultimately out of our participation in war.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with What We Talk About When We Talk About War. To get started finding What We Talk About When We Talk About War, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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