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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 332 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781612494449
  • 9781612494456
  • 9781557537331
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV6431 .R485 2016
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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