LEADER 03885nam 2200649 450 001 9910797122303321 005 20230807215844.0 010 $a0-8173-8819-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000422735 035 $a(EBL)2064669 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001497718 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11848005 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001497718 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11501199 035 $a(PQKB)10567832 035 $a(OCoLC)910816389 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42246 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2064669 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2064669 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11064211 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000422735 100 $a20150617h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHunt the Devil $ea demonology of US war culture /$fRobert L. Ivie and Oscar Giner 210 1$aTuscaloosa, Alabama :$cThe University Alabama Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (208 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-1869-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Evildoers; 2. Witches; 3. Indians; 4. Dictators; 5. Reds; 6. Tricksters; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index 330 $a"A critical study of the demonic imagery that has been persistently embedded and codified in America's war culture. The authors examine "the devil myth" in both its past and present iterations and also highlight the counter-myth of the "trickster figure" whose democratic impulses have occasionally succeeded in countering the impulse towards demonization. To unveil the devil myth, the authors identify outward projections of evil onto the faces of America's enemies. They begin by scrutinizing the image of evildoers used to justify the global war on terror. It is difficult, they observe, to recognize this literalized image as a rhetorical construction subject to critical reflection without revisiting earlier manifestations of the devil myth in American history. Mythical projection is a cyclical process of political culture, they argue. Traces of earlier iterations of the devil myth carry into the present, but enemies are demonized anew in distinctive ways at each historical juncture of national crisis. To illustrate this process, the book includes chapters on demonized figures preceding the war on terror: witches, Indians, dictators, and reds. Each chapter shows how these emotionally loaded symbols have functioned as apparitions of dark foes that must be destroyed to redeem the nation's innocence. In this way, the book reveals how the subliminal figure of the devil haunts U.S. political culture so that war symbolically wards off evil in defense of, but at the cost of curtailing, its democratic soul. One of the study's underlying questions is how the nation can make peace with diversity instead of condemning it as a dark foe carrying the mark of evil. The book works toward an answer by discussing the creative and critical role of the democratic trickster"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aDemonology$zUnited States 606 $aTricksters 606 $aImagery (Psychology) 606 $aWar and society$zUnited States 606 $aRhetoric$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States 615 0$aDemonology 615 0$aTricksters. 615 0$aImagery (Psychology) 615 0$aWar and society 615 0$aRhetoric$xPolitical aspects 676 $a133.4/20973 686 $aLAN004000$aPOL031000$aHIS036000$2bisacsh 700 $aIvie$b Robert L.$01538762 702 $aGiner$b Oscar$f1953- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797122303321 996 $aHunt the Devil$93789074 997 $aUNINA