RT Article
T1 Imperial Laughs: A Soldier's Song and the Colonial Present
JF Social justice
VO 37
IS 2/3
SP 73
OP 83
A1 Wall, Tyler
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747156388
AB The article offers observations and critiques of the song "Hadji Girl" written by U.S. Marine Corporal Joshua Belile during his deployment in the Iraq War. Details are provided about Belile's song that explains the murder of an Iraqi family after a U.S. soldier is invited to the home of an Iraqi girl. The author offers opinions about racial inversion, dehumanization, and objectification of women and Iraqis within the song. The responses of other U.S. soldiers to the content of the song are also discussed. It is suggested that the song has implications for the attitudes and views of U.S. soldiers towards Iraqis, violence, and death in the Iraq War.
K1 United States. Marine Corps
K1 Belile, Joshua
K1 CRIME victims
K1 Psychology
K1 American overseas military deployment
K1 Military personnel -- Conduct of life
K1 SEXUAL objectification
K1 Racism
K1 Iraqis
K1 Songs
K1 Atrocities in the Iraq War, 2003-2011
K1 War songs