The Tropes of War

Andrea Greenbaum, Ph.D., is a Professor of English at Barry University, USA, where she teaches classes in fiction writing, cultural studies, gender, the graphic novel, war, and screenwriting. She is the co-editor of Judaic Perspectives in Rhetoric and Composition Studies, author of Jews of South Florida, Emancipatory Movements in Composition: The Rhetoric of Possibility and Insurrections: Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies. Recently, she was selected as a Fellow for the Sundance Screenwriter's Institute for her script, 36.

Foreword, by Joseph D. Harris Introduction 1. The Mother of All Tropes: Visual Hyperbole and the Middle East 2. War and the Graphic Novel: Memory as Enthymeme in Maus and Waltz with Bashir 3. The War Documentary: Restrepo and the Synecdoche of Masculinity 4. Metonymy of Peace: The Comic Book Peace Project Conclusion: 'Living in the Age of Babel: War, Rhetoric, and the Perils of Hyberbole' Afterword, by Michael J. Leitner