Re-visioning terrorism : a humanistic perspective / / edited by Elena Coda and Ben Lawton

• Pubblicazione: West Lafayette, Indiana : , : Purdue University Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.325
• Soggetto topico: Terrorism - Social aspects
• Persona (resp. second.): CodaElena; LawtonBen
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Re-Visioning Terrorism: The Rack Focus Response; Part 1: Approaches to Understanding Terrorism; 2. Deleuze, the Event, and the Problem of Terrorism; 3. Symbolic Violence as Subtle Virulence: A Philosophy of Terrorism; 4. The Martyr's Vision: Why the Suicide Bomber's Eye Is Cast Not to the Sky-But to the Other; Part 2: Perspectives on Terrorism Through the Ages; 5. Resisting Alexander: Insurgency and Terrorism in Ancient Athens ; 6. State Counterterrorism in Ancient Rome: Toward a New Basis for the Diachronic Study of Terror7. Terror in the Old French Crusade Cycle: From Splendid Cavalry to Cannibalism; 8. The Invention of Modern State Terrorism During the French Revolution; Part 3: America and the War on Terror; 9. Fictions of Counterinsurgency; 10. The Cultural Politics of WMD Terrorism in Post-Cold War America; 11. Historicizing the Present in 9/11 Fiction; 12. Reading 9/11 Through the Holocaust in Philip Roth's The Plot Against America and Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers ; Part 4: Narrative, Cinematic, and Visual Case Studies13. Regarding Terror: The German Autumn and Contemporary Art; 14. Forms of (In)visibility in Recent Spanish Films on Basque Terrorism; 15. Writing Victims: Post-Terrorist Fiction(s) in the Basque Country and Spain; 16. Knights of Justice? Blockbuster Terrorism in Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion; Contributors; Index
• Titolo autorizzato: Re-visioning terrorism
• ISBN: 1-61249-445-5; 1-61249-444-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826763803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II