{"product_id":"sin-sick-moral-injury-in-war-and-literature-9781501755873","title":"Sin Sick: Moral Injury in War and Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSin Sick, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Pederson draws on the latest research about identifying and treating the pain of perpetration to advance and deploy a literary theory of moral injury that addresses fictional representations of the mental anguish of those who have injured or killed others.\u003c\/b\u003e Pederson's work foregrounds moral injury, a recent psychological concept distinct from trauma that is used to describe the psychic wounds suffered by those who breach their own deeply held ethical principles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComplementing writings on trauma theory that posit the textual manifestation of trauma as absence, \u003ci\u003eSin Sick\u003c\/i\u003e argues that moral injury appears in literature in a variety of forms of excess. Pederson closely reads works by Dostoevsky (\u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e), Camus (\u003ci\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/i\u003e), and veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (Brian Turner's\u003ci\u003e Here, Bullet\u003c\/i\u003e; Kevin Powers' \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Birds\u003c\/i\u003e; Phil Klay's \u003ci\u003eRedeployment\u003c\/i\u003e; and Roy Scranton's \u003ci\u003eWar Porn\u003c\/i\u003e), contending that recognizing and understanding the suffering of perpetrators, without condoning their crimes, enriches the experience of reading--and of being human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoshua Pederson is Associate Professor of Humanities at Boston University and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Forsaken Son\u003c\/i\u003e. Follow him on X @joshua_pederson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50520049123602,"sku":"9781501755873","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8c66ae21-070f-49c4-b35c-1a076ba1604b.jpg?v=1731075689","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sin-sick-moral-injury-in-war-and-literature-9781501755873","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}