Airpower in Literature: Interrogating the Clean War, 1915-2015

The first century of airpower has ended, yet few critics have addressed the literature that chronicles its...
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Author: Kimberly K. Dougherty
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Airpower in Literature: Interrogating the Clean War, 1915-2015 by Dougherty, Kimberly K.

Airpower in Literature: Interrogating the Clean War, 1915-2015

Dhs. 950.80

Airpower in Literature: Interrogating the Clean War, 1915-2015

Dhs. 950.80
Author: Kimberly K. Dougherty
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The first century of airpower has ended, yet few critics have addressed the literature that chronicles its human toll. Airpower in Literature: Interrogating the Clean War, 1915-2015 offers fresh insight into this airpower century by placing literature of five major wars in conversation with the clean war discourse. Kimberly Dougherty examines the paradoxical representation of aerial warfare that has allowed extensive airstrikes on cities and civilians while promising a "cleaner" method of waging war. First suggested by early military theorists, the notion of a clean air war--one that would save lives through its speed and precision-- proved seductive in the twentieth century and continues to shape the rhetoric of airpower today. The air war is perceived as clean, the author argues, when we see neither the aviator nor the targeted populations in the bombing dynamic. Through analysis of fiction, poetry, drama, and journalism, from the ruins of World War I to the technologies of post-modern war, the author identifies counternarratives that make visible both aviators and bombed societies, and present aerial warfare that is not clean, but messy, prolonged, and imprecise. This exploration encourages readers, and writers, to approach the next century of airpower with greater wisdom and empathy.

Author: Kimberly K. Dougherty
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 08/08/2022
Pages: 234
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781793653086

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