{"product_id":"sin-sick-joshua-pederson-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Pederson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501755870\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501755873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d","brand":"Joshua Pederson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43995934785791,"sku":"9781501755873","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5d45f73d-edfc-4eb4-9df6-2d7f5ea91d7d.jpg?v=1683338727","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sin-sick-joshua-pederson-9781501755873","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}