PAIN IS WEAKNESS LEAVING THE BODY: A Marine's Unbecoming

Rubin narrates his own undoing, the profound disillusionment that took hold of him on bases in the U.S. and Afghanistan. He both examines his own failings as a participant in a prescribed masculinity and the failing of American empire, examining the racialized and class hierarchies and culture of conquest that constitute the machinery of U.S. imperialism.