Abstract
Abstract: The metaphor of the home front reveals a spatializing logic through which the United States has historically conceptualized national belonging, producing both spaces of emplacement and spaces of displacement. I argue that these spaces emerge from the metaphor's blurring of the line between soldier and citizen within the body politic. To highlight the metaphor's rhetorical potentiality, the analysis examines FDR's 1942 Fireside Chat on the Home Front and a letter to the president regarding the bravery of an interned Japanese American Boy Scout troop. These texts showcase how the political and material effects of home front rhetoric are actualized in their most extreme and violent forms, ultimately illuminating the threshold of American belonging and democratic potential.
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