Harold Jaffe

Terror-Dot-Gov

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As in Harold Jaffe's two previous "docufiction" collections, False Positive and 15 Serial Killers, the author of Terror-Dot-Gov selects then "treats" his texts such that the reader is incapable of distinguishing between fact and fiction. That ambiguity permits Jaffe to cunningly tease out the contradictions and subtexts of official "news" or "information" and torque it into what it so often is fundamentally: jingoism, xenophobia and propaganda. Jaffe's subject in Terror-Dot-Gov is not the everywhere-represented "illicit" terrorism so much as "licit," institutionalized terrorism, and he assaults his subject from multiple angles: razor-sharp satire, precisely cadenced rhetoric, faux-reportage, and "unsituated" dialogues (Jaffe's term, referring to his trademark talking heads with perfect pitch). The result is virtuosic and paradoxical: a prodigious display of firepower-in the cause of peace.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Raw Dog Screaming Press
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 237g
• ISBN-13: 9781933293097
• ISBN-10: 1933293098
• Artikelnr.: 21492211

Autorenporträt

Harold Jaffe is the author of 30-plus novels, essays, short fiction, docufiction, and drama. His writings include Porn-anti-Porn; Death Cafe; Induced Coma; 15 Serial Killers; Dos Indios; Anti-Twitter; Strange Fruit and Other plays; Jesus Coyote; Brando Bleeds; Madonna & Other Spectacles; and Beyond the Techno-Cave. His work has been translated into French, Italian, German, Japanese, Turkish, and Serbo-Croatian.