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Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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“…"Okay," says B.D., holding his head in his right hand, "so you don't rattle." 85 George Bernard Shaw once said that those in cages are safe-from people. In our own cages of consciousness, we tend to react automatically when they are rattled.…”

Section: Compassion: the War Within (Ww)mentioning

confidence: 97%

“…replies, "I'm fine." 94 Neither we nor Trudeau would argue that a soldier suffering from combat trauma is "fine." The (tragic) irony is that B.D.…”

Section: Compassion: the War Within (Ww)mentioning

confidence: 98%

“…79 Trudeau opens with a quote by Bertold Brecht: "If there are obstacles, the shortest line between two points may be the crooked one." Brecht was the originator of "epic theatre," the aim of which was to study (not just incite) emotions.…”

Section: Compassion: the War Within (Ww)mentioning

confidence: 98%

“…"If that relaxes you" is Elias's disquieting response. 91 For readers, there is cold comfort in serving as civic confidants. Seeing the pain and suffering of soldiers is routine.…”

Section: Compassion: the War Within (Ww)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…"I'd forgotten how trivial life is back here," mutters B.D. 20 This strip demonstrates the tension between the "real" sufferance of returning soldiers and the "normal" grievances of everyday life. Additionally, here and elsewhere, Trudeau figures the vulgarity that gets lost in banal discourses of pity when he pits Zonker's laughable plight against B.D.…”

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Bringing War Down to Earth: The Dialectic of Pity and Compassion inDoonesbury's View of Combat Trauma

Gilbert¹,

Lucaites²

2015

Quarterly Journal of Speech

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Post-traumatic stress disorder among returning veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has invoked all manner of public responses, not least of which is a sense of pity that begins and ends with the moment of recognition. As such, the publicity of soldier sufferance ironically mitigates the need for a more complex socialization to the pain of war that might be animated by a more nuanced emotional response rooted in the disruption of common narratives about sacrifice, service, and heroism. This essay argues for the potential of Garry Trudeau's trilogy of cartoons, collected under the titles of The Long Road Home, The War Within, and Signature Wound, to depict a dialectic of pity and compassion while underscoring the inadequacies of discourses of trauma through the use of bathos-a verbal-visual descent that emphasizes the commonplace in the seemingly extraordinary through the trope of the ridiculous.

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Section: Compassion: the War Within (Ww)mentioning

confidence: 97%

“…replies, "I'm fine." 94 Neither we nor Trudeau would argue that a soldier suffering from combat trauma is "fine." The (tragic) irony is that B.D.…”

Section: Compassion: the War Within (Ww)mentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Compassion: the War Within (Ww)mentioning

confidence: 98%

“…"If that relaxes you" is Elias's disquieting response. 91 For readers, there is cold comfort in serving as civic confidants. Seeing the pain and suffering of soldiers is routine.…”

Section: Compassion: the War Within (Ww)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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