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The figure of the terrorist...
"The contemporary preoccupation with terrorism is marked by a curious paradox: whereas the topic has been ubiquitous in public discourse since the late twentieth century, the voices of terrorists themselves are usually silenced. Is the terrorist "the quintessential proscribed or tabooed figure of our times", as cultural anthropologists Joseba Zulaika and William A. Douglass have suggested? The present volume is the first to approach the tabooing of terrorists from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. Covering a broad geographical scope, it explores how different media forms (such as novels, fiction and non-fiction films, or comic books) frame and make sense of the figure of the terrorist: do they reinforce the terrorism taboo, or do they find ways of circumventing it? Each contribution asks how factors such as ideological agenda, religious identity, ethnicity, and gender impact the way the perpetrators of political violence are conceived in different historical moments and cultural contexts."--
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monografia Rebiun39559737 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun39559737 m o d cr cnu|||||||| 230717t20232023stka ob 001 0 eng d 1391439086 1537952750 9781474497602 webready PDF) 1474497608 webready PDF) 9781474497619 epub) 1474497616 epub) 9781474497589 hardback) 9781474497596 paperback) 1474497586 AU@ 000075369905 22573/cats997558 JSTOR YDX eng rda pn YDX YDX EBLCP JSTOR DEGRU OCLCQ UEJ OCLCF OCLCO UKAHL N$T OCLCQ WAU OCLCO OSU OCLCQ SFB LIT 012000 bisacsh 809.933556 23 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ddc/E37YWchFfffGC6dF9c6PvTMqFt The figure of the terrorist in literature and visual culture edited by Maria Flood and Michael C.Frank Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2023 Edinburgh Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2023 1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) illustrations (black and white) 1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction: The Figure of the Terrorist in Literature and Visual Culture / Maria Flood and Michael C. Frank -- The Psychology of Post-War Revolutionary Terrorism in Muriel Spark's The Only Problem and Doris Lessing's The Good Terrorist / Beatriz Lopez -- Sympathy for the Devil? The Changing Face of the IRA in American Superhero Comics / Shane Walshe -- Terrorists and Hooligans: Re-politicising a De-politicised Figure in Contemporary Representations of British Football Culture / Cyprian Piskurek -- Screening Railway Terrorists: Light Modernity, Invisible Threats, and the Aesthetics of Concealment in The 15:17 to Paris and Bodyguard / Johannes Riquet -- 'Nothing Terroristic About Him': The Figure of the Terrorist in Karan Mahajan's The Association of Small Bombs / Peter C. Herman -- Militancy, Maternity, and Masquerade in Santosh Sivan's The Terrorist / Rajeswari Mohan -- The Female Counter-Strike: Terrorising Patriarchy in Hindi Cinema / Harald Pittel -- Contrasting Terrorist Figures: Far-Right Extremists and Jihadists in Contemporary French Cinema / Sarah Davison -- 'I Was a Big Girl. I Could Pack My Bags and Leave': ISIS and Female Emancipation in Tabish Khair's Just Another Jihadi Jane / Zaynab Seedat -- Circumventing the Condemnation Imperative: The Figure of the Female Suicide Bomber in Akin and El Akkad / Tim Gauthier -- Discomfort and Documentary: The Figure of the White Extremist in Deeyah Khan's White Right / Maria Flood -- Intimate Conflicts: Rebels, Heroes, and Disfigured Terrorists in Burmese Anglophone Literature / Pavan Kumar Malreddy -- Afterword / Richard Jackson "The contemporary preoccupation with terrorism is marked by a curious paradox: whereas the topic has been ubiquitous in public discourse since the late twentieth century, the voices of terrorists themselves are usually silenced. Is the terrorist "the quintessential proscribed or tabooed figure of our times", as cultural anthropologists Joseba Zulaika and William A. Douglass have suggested? The present volume is the first to approach the tabooing of terrorists from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective. Covering a broad geographical scope, it explores how different media forms (such as novels, fiction and non-fiction films, or comic books) frame and make sense of the figure of the terrorist: do they reinforce the terrorism taboo, or do they find ways of circumventing it? Each contribution asks how factors such as ideological agenda, religious identity, ethnicity, and gender impact the way the perpetrators of political violence are conceived in different historical moments and cultural contexts."-- Publisher Terrorism in literature Terrorism in motion pictures Literature- History and criticism Littérature- Histoire et critique Terrorisme dans la littérature Terrorisme au cinéma LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference. Literature. Terrorism in literature. Terrorism in motion pictures. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Film criticism. Critiques littéraires. Critiques cinématographiques. Flood, Maria editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjDvkjqBwXYrVDF8jC3mMK Frank, Michael C. editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJf4htgCR8VTYC48gHjgrq https://isni.org/isni/0000000107186379 Print version Figure of the terrorist in literature and visual culture. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023 9781474497589 (OCoLC)1377216096 ebook version 9781474497619 Original 9781474497589 1474497586