%0 Journal Article
%T Military Masculinity and the Act of Killing in Hamlet and Afghanistan
%A Hannah Partis-Jennings
%J Men and Masculinities
%@ 1552-6828
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1097184X17718585
%X This article looks at a 2011 incident which led to a soldier (Marine A) being convicted of murdering an Afghan insurgent. It focuses on the words (quoting from Hamlet) spoken by the Marine as he carried out the killing: ¡°shuffle off this mortal coil, you cunt¡± and examines the link that these words establish between the war in Afghanistan and Shakespeare¡¯s play. The article explores the connections between Hamlet and Marine A and how their actions can be understood to both parallel each other and diverge around ethical contemplation; access to military masculinity; the banishing of the feminine; and a process of mediation, performance, and interpretation
%K military masculinity
%K Hamlet
%K Marine A
%K Afghanistan
%K war
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1097184X17718585