The Dialectics of Victimhood in Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

This paper examines Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012) in the context of the 2003 Iraq War. It aims to uncover the novel’s approach to victimhood and accountability for war atrocities. Victimhood is crucial to the rhetoric of war because it legitimizes acts of violence against an...

The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies

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