A Good War is Hard to Find

The Art of Violence in America

David Griffith

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Soft Skull Press
04 August 2006

Politics & government

"In the wake of Abu Ghraib, Americans have struggled to understand what happened in the notorious prison and why. In this elegant series of essays, inflected with a radical Catholic philosophy, David Griffith contends that society's shift from language to image has changed the way people think about violence and cruelty, and that a disconnect exists between images and reality. Griffith meditates on images and literature, finding potent insight into what went wrong at the prison in the works of Susan Sontag, Anthony Burgess, and especially Flannery O'Connor, who often explored the gulf between proclamations of faith and the capacity for evil. Accompanying the essays are illustrated facts about torture, lists of torture methods and their long-term effects, and graphics such as the schematics of the pain pathways"" in the human body. Together, the images and essays endow the human being with the complexity images alone deny."

By: David Griffith
Imprint: Soft Skull Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 139mm, Width: 190mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 211g
ISBN: 9781933368122
ISBN 10: 1933368128
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 04 August 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dave Griffith is the author of A Good War is Hard to Find- The Art of Violence in America. His work has appeared in the Utne Reader, Paris Review Daily, Image, The Normal School, Creative Nonfiction, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. He is at work on a book titled Pyramid Scheme- Making Art and Being Broke in America. He lives in Michigan with his wife, the writer Jessica Mesman Griffith, and their two children.

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