{"product_id":"cult-of-the-victim-veteran-hardback","title":"Cult of the Victim-Veteran - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChoice Editors' Picks for April 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Cult of the Victim-Veteran explores the pool of American post- Vietnam War angst that rightists began plying in the 1980s. Ronald Reagan’s 1984 proclamation of a new \"Morning in America\" encoded the war as the moment of the nation’s fall from grace; it was the meme plagiarized by Donald Trump for his \"Make America Great Again\" (MAGA) slogan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe national funk tapped for right- wing revanchism was psychologized when George H.W. Bush appropriated post- Vietnam syndrome, the diagnostic forerunner to post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), to memorialize the military accomplishments in the Persian Gulf War of 1990–1991—we had \"kicked the Vietnam Syndrome.\" America was a victim- nation, its trauma emblemized by PTSD-stricken veterans whose war mission had been lost on the home front, cast aside, even spat on, upon return home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book we see the long historical threads woven for MAGA: the twining of traditional and modern ways of knowing that imbues war trauma with political and cultural properties that complicate its diagnostic use; the post- World War I disclosure that many shellshock patients had never been exposed to exploding shells, and the use of wounded- veteran imagery to fan the flames of German fascism; the cultural necessity of reimaging antiwar Vietnam veterans as psychiatric casualties that calls forth a new diagnostic category, PTSD; the derivatizing of PTSD for traumatic brain injury, Agent Orange, and moral injury; and the victim- veteran figure as metaphor for a wounded America, for which MAGA is the remedy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45546732323054,"sku":"9781032490267","price":227.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/cult-of-the-victim-veteran-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}