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OverviewContains thirteen original essays and an expansive introduction, including contributions by some of the foremost scholars in the field Goes beyond the US-centrism of post-9/11 discourse and covers a broad geographical scope, including India, Sri Lanka, Burma, the UK, France, and Germany Offers up-to-date discussions of key films and texts, as well as pioneering analyses of works that have been largely overlooked in scholarship Brings together research from multiple disciplinary perspectives, including literary criticism, film and television studies, cultural anthropology, critical terrorism studies, postcolonial studies, and gender studies 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Maria Flood , Michael FrankPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 9781474497589ISBN 10: 1474497586 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 30 June 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews"""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."" -Joseba Zulaika, Author of Terrorism: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" Author InformationMaria Flood is Senior Lecturer in World Cinema at the University of LiverpoolMichael C. Frank is Professor of Literatures in English of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries at the University of Zurich Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |