Malignants in the Body Politic Redefining War through Metaphor

By Stickle, Douglas R.

Book Id: WPLBN0000699678
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Malignants in the Body Politic Redefining War through Metaphor
Author:	Stickle, Douglas R.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Asian literature, Writing.
Collections:	Asian Literature Collection, e-Asia Digital Library Collection
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Publisher:	University of Oregon Libraries; E-Asia Digital Library


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Excerpt
Excerpt: In the aftermath of 9/11, President George W. Bush declared the dawn of a new kind of war. He has repeatedly emphasized that means and measures of success in this new war will differ greatly from wars past. However, if this ?war on terrorism? is unlike any other war, then what is it like? From the public statements of high-ranking U.S. officials, metaphorical answers emerge: terrorism is a metastasizing cancer, a plague, a threat from which we are not immune. This study explores the analogies of immunity, infection, and cancer. In doing so it addresses the classic strategic question: What is the nature of the enemy and of the fight? In the never-ending battle against microbes and a 30-year-old ?war on cancer,? the enemies are microbes and malignancies--threats from without and threats from within. In the context of the announced war on terrorism, I convert these biological and medical themes for reflective contemplation and conclude that the administration might look further to the language of disease to better communicate the challenges of the war on terrorists.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Disclaimer, Ii -- Abstract, V -- About the Author, Vii -- Acknowledgments, Ix -- 1 Emerging Metaphors, 1 -- 2 Threats From Without, 7 -- 3 Threats From Within, 23 -- 4 Redefining War, 33