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Figure of the Terrorist in Literature and Visual Culture by Michael C. Frank (2025, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherEdinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press

ISBN-101474497594

ISBN-139781474497596

eBay Product ID (ePID)14070922668

Product Key Features

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameFigure of the Terrorist in Literature and Visual Culture

Publication Year2025

SubjectFilm / Reference, Film / Direction & Production, Film / History & Criticism

TypeTextbook

AuthorMichael C. Frank

Subject AreaPerforming Arts

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

ReviewsThese essays challenge the "terrorism taboo," in which the figure of the terrorist is deprived of "political subjectivity," through nuanced investigations of this figure--represented in fiction, film, television, and comics--that restore complexity. By complicating and rehistoricizing the figure of the terrorist, these authors ultimately challenge readers to consider how or if empathy--a "difficult empathy"--might be employed., An exceptional anthology [...] presents a critical and overdue intervention in the landscape of terrorism discourse, testing and dismantling the prevalent terrorism mythography., Required reading for anyone concerned with the political uses and abuses of the fictionalized Terrorist figure. The collection revisits the notion of the terrorism taboo within literature and cinema to tackle difficult topics like the ambiguity of fiction in constituting and dissolving terrorism., This collection makes an exciting intervention that expands the frame of critical terrorism studies to include figures such as football hooligans and white supremacists, as well as offering new comparative readings of well-established terrorist tropes and representations in contemporary global literary and visual culture.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal809.933556

Table Of ContentIntroduction: The Figure of the Terrorist in Literature and Visual Culture - Maria Flood and Michael C. Frank Historicising the Figure of the Terrorist: Cross-Media Perspectives 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 Comic - 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 Gender, Identity, and Terrorism 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 Intimate Enemies: Feeling for the Terrorist? 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

SynopsisThe 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., Contains thirteen original essays and an expansive introduction, including contributions by some of the foremost scholars in the field.