Tracer

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This dissertation, a hybrid of critical theory and poetry, investigates the implementation of metapoetics through a lyric sequence in order to frame the opposition between ethics and aesthetics, especially for art created in the wake of September 11 and the American occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. The title of the manuscript, Tracer, is derived from the concept of “tracer fire”—bullets or projectiles that have been modified with a bright-burning magnesium compound, which, when ignited, leave a bright luminescent trail behind the bullet in flight, allowing for aiming in adverse conditions of weather or light. In the case of warfare, tracers have the dangerous quality of showing one's position of fire even as they aid in aiming. The book explores the metaphysical ramifications of “tracer” fire, as the gesture of killing becomes simultaneously the risk of being killed—a dialogical exchange of life and death. The ultimate conclusion of the Jacque Derrida's notion of the trace is that it is both the indicator and the concealer of différance; for this reason, the notion of a “trace” is one way to isolate how these American wars promulgate an ultimate extension of the “othering” of the Orient.

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Publication Date:2005

Thesis Information

Degree:Ph.D.
University:University of Denver
Advisor/Supervisor:B. Ramke
Pages:113

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Language:eng
Publication Date:2005

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proquest:304993144

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American literature eng Language, literature and linguistics Metapoetics Military occupation Original writing PDF Poetry Rhetoric September 11 2001 Tracer with Original writing