Kill Talk: On Military Language and Combat Poetry with Dr. Janet McIntosh
Salem Athenaeum 337 Essex St, Salem, MA, United StatesBrandeis anthropologist Janet McIntosh interviewed nearly fifty combat veterans and visited the famous/infamous Marine Corps bootcamp at Parris Island as part of the research for her book, Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics (Oxford University Press, 2025). McIntosh describes the language of training: brutal and sometimes outrageous, intended to prepare men and women for obeying orders under […]