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Cargando... What We Talk About When We Talk About Warpor Noah Richler
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 Finalist, John W. Dafoe Book Prize Finalist, Shaughnessey Cohen Prize for Political Writing Finalist, Governor General's Award for Non-fiction Longlisted for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction Globe & Mail Top 100 Book of 2012 Editor's Pick for 2012, Amazon.ca “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 1812 Did Lester B. Pearson get it wrong? The Liberal prime minister envisioned Canada as a nation of peacekeepers, and won the Nobel Prize for his vision. However, throughout the last decade, Canada’s identity crisis has deepened. The concept of the Canadian soldier as peacekeeper has been transformed into one of confident and able war-maker. We are told we are, and must be, a warrior nation. In What We Talk About When We Talk About War, Noah Richler examines the rhetoric of conflict, how story and information is used to convince a society to pursue a particular path, or not. This clear-eyed polemic looks at the narrative employed by politicians and the military and takes the media to task for our revised national mythology and 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. Find Goose Lane eBooks at Kobo, Barnes & Noble, amazon and other eBook retailers.
An Amazon.ca Editor's Pick for 2012 and a Globe and MailTop 100 Book of 2012 Shortlisted, Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and John W. Dafoe Book Prize Longlisted, Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction A provocative examination of how communications has shaped the language of the media, and vice versa, and how rhetoric shapes how Canadians thinks of themselves as a nation and Canada's engagement in peacekeeping, war, and on the international stage. According to Richler, each phase of engagement in Afghanistan has been shaped not only by rhetoric but an overarching narrative structure. This topic is very much in discussion at the moment. With the withdrawal of Canadian troops (at least in part) from Afghanistan, it becomes clear there had been a rhetorical cycle. Where once Canada wielded the myth of itself as a peacekeeping nation, the past decade has seen a marked shift away from this, emphasizing the Canadian soldier as warrior. Yet now, as the country withdraws, the oratorical language we use steps away from heroes, able warriors, and sacrifice and back towards a more comfortable vision of Canada in a peacekeeping/training role. In recent years, Canada has made large financial investments in the apparatus of war -- in a manner it hasn't in a very long time -- and as the realities of war are brought home (the losses, the tragedies, the atrocities, the lasting repercussions that come home with the soldiers who were on the front lines), Richler contends that it's crucial we understand our national perspective on war -- how we have framed it, how we continue to frame it. Using recent events to bolster his arguments, including the shooting of American congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the earthquake in Haiti, Richler argues that very possibly the epic narrative of Canada is winding back down to that of the novel as we slowly regain our peacekeeping agenda. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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