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Issue 4.5 Previous Issues

Photographing the Flag

Harriet Earle October 30, 2015 No Comments 9/11 conflict Dark Horse Doug Wheatley flag ground zero icon Joe Rosenthal Marvel photography Simone Weil Susan Sontag Thomas Franklin trauma war

In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag examines the history and development of representing war in photographs. Returning to the earliest images of conflict, she writes: ‘Not to be pained by these pictures, not to recoil from them, not to strive to abolish what caused this havoc, this carnage – these would be the reactions of a moral monster’ (2003: 7). …

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Issue 1.6 Previous Issues

Extraordinary Renditions: Voicing Opposition to War

Alex Latter November 1, 2012 1 Comment Abu Ghraib Afghanistan Allan Jankins Andrea Brady Carol Ann Duffy Dante Descent George W. Bush Inferno Iraq literary criticism literature poetic voice poetry Quid Saw Fit terza rima The Guardian Tony Blair twenty-first-century poetry violence war

Andrea Brady’s recent poem ‘Saw Fit’ and Alan Jenkins’ ‘Descent’ explicitly address the historical context of the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq…

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