Date of Award
Spring 5-10-2014
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Communication
First Advisor
Mary E. Stuckey
Second Advisor
Carol K. Winkler
Third Advisor
David Cheshier
Fourth Advisor
Robert L. Ivie
Abstract
This dissertation identifies and explains the rhetorical strategies presidents engage in at the end of war to remedy the problem created by the production and circulation of savage depictions of the enemy. By analyzing presidential rhetoric at the conclusion of World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan, this research demonstrates how presidents recivilize, transfer, erase, and distribute savage imagery, how those processes facilitate the closure of war, and how that rhetoric reconstitutes war as a permanent condition of American foreign policy.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/5514875
Recommended Citation
Heidt, Stephen, "The Mobile Savage: Presidential Peace Rhetoric and the Perpetuation of Enemies." Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2014.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/5514875