Peter C. Herman

Unspeakable (eBook, ePUB)

Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Unspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11 explores the representation of terrorism in plays, novels, and films across the centuries. Time and time again, writers and filmmakers including William Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Gillo Pontecorvo, Don DeLillo, John Updike, and Steven Spielberg refer to terrorist acts as beyond comprehension, "a deed without a name," but they do not stop there. Instead of creating works that respond to terrorism by providing comforting narratives reassuring audiences and readers of their moral superiority and the perfidy of the terrorists, these writers and filmmakers confront the unspeakable by attempting to see the world from the terrorist's perspective and by examining the roots of terrorist violence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000008524
• Artikelnr.: 57744670

Autorenporträt

Peter C. Herman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Speakable/Unspeakable: The Rhetoric of Terrorism 1. "A Deed without a Name": Macbeth
the Gunpowder Plot
and Terrorism 2. Terrorism and the Nineteenth Century: From the French Revolution to the Stevensons
Greer
James
Conrad
and the Rosetti Sisters 3. When Terrorism Becomes Speakable: Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers and the Literature of the Troubles 4. Israel/Palestine: Unspeakability in John le Carré
The Little Drummer Girl
Steven Spielberg
Munich
and Mohammed Moulessehoul [Yasmina Khadra]
The Attack 5. "Why do they hate us?": Updike
Hamid
DeLillo 6. Epilogue: Where Do We Go From Here? Nadeem Aslam
Amy Waldman
and Jodi Picoult