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Résumé
Cet article vise à analyser le film Dans la vallée d’Elah à partir d’une perspective théorique féministe de la sécurité internationale, afin de déceler les rapports de genre et de « race » qui sous-tendent la construction de différentes masculinités au sein des discours et des narrations sur la sécurité internationale, la guerre et la militarisation, notamment dans le contexte de la guerre en Irak et des productions culturelles s’y référant. En effet, si le film est critique de plusieurs aspects de la guerre en Irak, il est à se demander si ces critiques ont entraîné une véritable déconstruction des discours genrés et racisés qui légitiment et rendent possibles la militarisation et les guerres, ou si ceux-ci, même critiqués, sont reconduits par la narration du conflit. L’article soutient que la masculinité hégémonique du personnage principal est construite en opposition à une masculinité pervertie par la guerre en Irak chez les jeunes soldats y ayant combattu, limitant la critique à cette guerre spécifique et non à la guerre en général.
Abstract
This article aims to construe the movie In the Valley of Elah from a feminist theoretical perspective of international security, in order to uncover the gender and race relations underlying the construction of different masculinities within discourses and narratives on militarization, war and international security; particularly in the context of the war in Iraq and the cultural productions recounting that conflict. In fact, while the movie is critical towards the war in Iraq, the issue is whether these criticisms have led to a real deconstruction of gendered and racialized discourses legitimizing and enabling militarization and wars, or if those discourses, even when criticized, are reproduced by the narratives related to this conflict. The article sustains that the main character’s hegemonic masculinity is constructed in opposition to the perverted masculinity of young soldiers, perversion caused by the war in Iraq, restricting the critique to this war in particular rather than war in general.
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