Author ORCID Identifier
Date Available
12-2-2022
Year of Publication
2022
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Document Type
Master's Thesis
College
Arts and Sciences
Department/School/Program
Geography
First Advisor
Dr. Patricia Ehrkamp
Abstract
This thesis employs several books from the Veterans Book Project, focusing on the stories of white male veterans of the Iraq War. I analyze these books through the lenses of banal nationalism, masculinity, feminist political geography and embodiment. Using archival and visual methods, I analyze how these books reproduce imperial logics and what this suggests about the veterans’ role in the everyday realities of war. Through analysis of these books, I examine the representation of the veterans’ wartime experiences and the reconstruction of veterans’ identities. This research seeks to understand how personal narratives reproduce imperial projects and colonialism through discourse and representation. I argue that the veterans hold a tense position within the imperial project, both complicit in and victim to the state’s violence.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2022.386
Recommended Citation
Foley, Brenna, ""I DREAMT OF HOME": U.S. VETERANS' REPRESENTATIONS OF WARTIME EXPERIENCES" (2022). Theses and Dissertations--Geography. 92.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/92
