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Re-visioning terrorism : a humanistic perspective /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Coda, Elena (Editor ), Lawton, Ben (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Re-visioning terrorism: the rack focus response / Elena Coda and Ben Lawton
  • Part 1: Approaches to Understanding Terrorism.
  • 2. Deleuze, the event, and the problem of terrorism / Kenneth E. Noe
  • 3. Symbolic violence as subtle virulence: a philosophy of terrorism / Jonathan Beever
  • 4. The martyr's vision: why the suicide bomber's eye is cast not to the sky, but to the other / Hatem N. Akil
  • Part 2: Perspectives on Terrorism Through the Ages.
  • 5. Resisting Alexander: insurgency and terrorism in ancient Athens / Timothy Howe
  • 6. State counterterrorism in ancient Rome: toward a new basis for the diachronic study of terror / Ricardo Apostol
  • 7. Terror in the old French Crusade cycle: from splendid cavalry to cannibalism / Sarah-Grace Heller
  • 8. The invention of modern state terrorism during the French Revolution / Guillaume Ansart
  • Part 3: America and the War on Terror.
  • 9. Fictions of counterinsurgency / Louise Barnett
  • 10. The cultural politics of WMD terrorism in post-Cold War America / Harold Williford
  • 11. Historicizing the present in 9/11 fiction / Todd Kuchta
  • 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 / Stella Setka
  • Part 4: Narrative, Cinematic, and Visual Cases Studies.
  • 13. Regarding terror: the German autumn and contemporary art / Fabian Winkler
  • 14. forms of (in)visibility in recent Spanish films on Basque terrorism / Jaume Marti-Olivella
  • 15. Writing victims: post-terrorist fiction(s) in the Basque country and Spain / Roland Vazquez
  • 16. Knights of justice? Blockbuster terrorism in Code Geass: Lelouch of the rebellion / Aaron Choo and Wilson Koh.