Re-visioning terrorism : a humanistic perspective /
edited by Elena Coda and Ben Lawton.
- West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource (vii, 332 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
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 terror / 7. 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 Cases Studies. -- 13. 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 / Elena Coda and Ben Lawton -- Kenneth E. Noe -- Jonathan Beever -- Hatem N. Akil -- Timothy Howe -- Ricardo Apostol -- Sarah-Grace Heller -- Guillaume Ansart -- Louise Barnett -- Harold Williford -- Todd Kuchta -- Stella Setka -- Fabian Winkler -- Jaume Marti-Olivella -- Roland Vazquez -- Aaron Choo and Wilson Koh.