Challenging the predominantly Euro-American approaches to the field, this volume captures the multiple transnational reverberations of the discourses on terrorism, counter-terrorism and insurgency.
Challenging the predominantly Euro-American approaches to the field, this volume captures the multiple transnational reverberations of the discourses on terrorism, counter-terrorism and insurgency.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Michael C. Frank is professor of Literatures in English of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. The author of The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism in Public Discourse, Literature, and Film (Routledge, 2017), his most recent publications include articles on literary responses to the war on terror and the figure of the terrorist in contemporary fiction and film. Pavan Kumar Malreddy teaches English Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. He has written extensively on the intersections of literature and postcolonial violence. His recent publications include several essays on Burmese and Middle Eastern literature, and a co-edited volume Violence in South Asia (2019, Routledge).
Inhaltsangabe
Narratives of the War on Terror: Introduction 1. Transparency into opacity: Nadeem Aslam's alternative to the 9/11 novel 2. Human dignity, the 'War on Terror' and post-9/11 Pakistani fiction 3. Writing against neocolonial necropolitics: literary responses by Iraqi/Arab writers to the US 'War on Terror' 4. Speaking for the Muslim world: popular memoir and the 'War on Terror' 5. 'Living literally in terror': Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Guantánamo Diary and the autoimmunitary politics of dehumanisation in the 'War on Terror' 6. Omar Khadr, Guantánamo and carceral gastronomy 7. Transatlantic transactions: UK-US relations and the 'War on Terror' in Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer 8. (De)humanising images and cinematic heterotopias: drone warfare in film 9. Performing sovereignty: war documentaries and documentary wars in Syria
Narratives of the War on Terror: Introduction 1. Transparency into opacity: Nadeem Aslam's alternative to the 9/11 novel 2. Human dignity, the 'War on Terror' and post-9/11 Pakistani fiction 3. Writing against neocolonial necropolitics: literary responses by Iraqi/Arab writers to the US 'War on Terror' 4. Speaking for the Muslim world: popular memoir and the 'War on Terror' 5. 'Living literally in terror': Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Guantánamo Diary and the autoimmunitary politics of dehumanisation in the 'War on Terror' 6. Omar Khadr, Guantánamo and carceral gastronomy 7. Transatlantic transactions: UK-US relations and the 'War on Terror' in Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer 8. (De)humanising images and cinematic heterotopias: drone warfare in film 9. Performing sovereignty: war documentaries and documentary wars in Syria
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