“In its entirety, Literature and Terrorism is clearly the more comprehensive and more nuanced of the two volumes, with a broader scope, a larger extent of theoretical groundwork, and a more diversified and critical approach to the phenomenon that ‘9/11’ has become over the past thirteen years.” - Birgit Däwes, Flensburg, in: Amerikastudien / American Studies 60.1 (2016)

The years following the attacks of September 11, 2001 have seen the publication of a wide range of scientific analyses of terrorism. Literary studies seem to lag curiously behind this general shift of academic interest. The present volume sets out to fill this gap. It does so in the conviction that the study of literature has much to offer to the transdisciplinary investigation of terror, not only with respect to the present post-9/11 situation but also with respect to earlier historical contexts. Literary texts are media of cultural self-reflection, and as such they have always played a crucial role in the discursive response to terror, both contributing to and resisting dominant conceptions of the causes, motivations, dynamics, and aftermath of terrorist violence. By bringing together experts from various fields and by combining case studies of works from diverse periods and national literatures, the volume Literature and Terrorism chooses a diachronic and comparative perspective. It is interested in the specific cultural work performed by narrative and dramatic literature in the face of terrorism, focusing on literature's ambivalent relationship to other, competing modes of discourse.
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Michael C. Frank and Eva Gruber: Literature and Terrorism: Introduction The Emergence of the Terrorist in Fiction: Literary-Historical Approaches Gudrun Braunsperger: Sergey Nechaev and Dostoevsky’s Devils: The Literary Answer to Terrorism in Nineteenth-Century Russia Michael C. Frank: Plots on London: Terrorism in Turn-of-the-Century British Fiction Hendrik Blumentrath: Enmity and the Archive: Aesthetics of Defiguration in Literature and Criminology, 1900/1970 Pre- and Post-9/11 Representations of Terrorism in Fiction: Continuities and Breaks Eva Gruber: Narrating Terrorism on the Eve of 9/11: Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto Martina Wolff: Self, Identity and Terrorism in Current American Literature: American Pastoral and Terrorist Roy Scranton: The 9/11 Novel and the Politics of Narcissism Margaret Scanlan: After the Apocalypse: Novelists and Terrorists since 9/11 Michael König: Literary Accounts of Terrorism in Recent German Literature: An Attempt at Marginalization? Narrativizations of Terror: Media and Modes, Plot and Form Ulrich Meurer: Double-mediated Terrorism: Gerhard Richter and Don DeLillo’s “Baader-Meinhof” Kirsten Mahlke: A Fantastic Tale of Terror: Argentina’s “Disappeared” and Their Narrative Representation in Julio Cortázar’s “Second Time Round” Georgiana Banita: Middle Hours: Terrorism and Narrative Emplotment in Andre Dubus III’s The Garden of Last Days The Question of Genre: Drama and Narrative Literature after 9/11 Marie-Luise Egbert: Narratives of Terror: A New Paradigm for the Novel? Herbert Grabes: The Impact of “September 11”: Dramatic and Narrative Creations Notes on Contributors Index
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ISBN
9789042034983
Publisert
2012-01-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Editions Rodopi B.V.
Vekt
448 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet