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ABSTRACT
The special issue of the Journal of Multicultural Discourses on discourses of war and peace, 70 years after the end of World War II, is introduced by discussing war culture as resilient but also unstable and subject to transformation. The special issue features six papers, each a distinct discursive intervention on topics that range from the mythic narrative of US insecurity to strategies of rhetorical bypassing, British colonial nostalgia, marginalized veterans of the Malvinas war, US military veterans waging peace, and characterizations of peace in Israeli children's periodicals. Together these six papers reveal the artificiality of naturalized discourses of war.
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Notes on contributor
Robert L. Ivie is Professor Emeritus of Communication and Culture & American Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award by the National Communication Association and an Honorary Professorship in Rhetoric by the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on political rhetoric, US war culture, democratic dissent, and peace-building discourse. His most recent book is Hunt the Devil: A Demonology of US War Culture (Ivie and Giner Citation2015). He has served as editor of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Western Journal of Communication. Email: [email protected]