The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence
…ch that you cannot control your removal from the field of action. With the Paris attacks over the weekend, that diffusion of danger seems only magnified. Killers come from among your fellow citizens. Wars in Syria spill over into Paris, and then echo back to the Middle East. Fear itself becomes the weapon; there’s a reason we call it terrorism. When war becomes uncoupled from specific places, the timbre of trauma changes. Drone operators now suffe…
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