Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body

Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body
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Publisher : Bold Type Books
Total Pages : 299
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ISBN-10 : 9781645037071
ISBN-13 : 164503707X
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Book Synopsis Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body by : Lyle Jeremy Rubin

Download or read book Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body written by Lyle Jeremy Rubin and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An honest reckoning with the war on terror, masculinity, and the violence of American hegemony abroad, at home, and on the psyche, from a veteran whose convictions came undone When Lyle Jeremy Rubin first arrived at Marine Officer Candidates School, he was convinced that the “war on terror” was necessary to national security. He also subscribed to a strict code of manhood that military service conjured and perpetuated. Then he began to train and his worldview shattered. Honorably discharged five years later, Rubin returned to the United States with none of his beliefs, about himself or his country, intact. In Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body, Rubin narrates his own undoing, the profound disillusionment that took hold of him on bases in the U.S. and Afghanistan. He both examines his own failings as a participant in a prescribed masculinity and the failings of American empire, examining the racialized and class hierarchies and culture of conquest that constitute the machinery of U.S. imperialism. The result is a searing analysis and the story of one man’s personal and political conversion, told in beautiful prose by an essayist, historian, and veteran transformed.


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