Lynndie England, Abu Ghraib, and the New Imperialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8894883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruce Tucker (corresponding author), Sia Triantafyllos |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-100 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras.38.1.83 |
| OpenAlex | W4242811309 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
This is an examination of the official reaction by the Bush administration to the torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and the coverage of the story by mainstream American media. By doing so, the authors seek to explain the emergence of what in retrospect became a metanarrative about Abu Ghraib that limited debate and public understanding to a narrow range of questions about individual moral culpability. Attention will be given to how the story was framed, in both its emphases and silences, and particularly to how it came to be remembered. In the case of Abu Ghraib, the spectacle of the same set of photographs shown repeatedly kept the focus on individual perpetrators and the morality of their behaviour, creating a narrative limited to the actions of a few individuals. This metanarrative allowed Americans to exempt themselves from confronting race and the racialized violence that structures both the discourse and the practice of the so called “war on terror.”
Art · Criminology · Culpability · Human rights · Literature · Mainstream · Media studies · Metanarrative · Morality · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Spectacle · Torture · Global Security and Public Health · History · Law · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence · Torture, Ethics, and Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |