birthed the modern American state—and ends with the recent
conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. In particular, we will attend to the ethics of representation, asking who is assigned
the roles of hero, villain, and victim in the works we study, and why the writers and film directors have made the
choices they do. The arguments made by these books and films are part of evolving conversation about the nature of
organized violence, and our task will be to account for these shifts in perspective. In…
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