Narratives of the 'War on Terror': Global Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367499884 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 132 str.

Michael C. Frank; Pavan Kumar Malreddy

Opis

Challenging the predominantly Euro-American approaches to the field, this volume captures the multiple transnational reverberations of the discourses on terrorism, counter-terrorism and insurgency.

Spis treści

Narratives of the War on Terror: Introduction
1. Transparency into opacity: Nadeem Aslam’s alternative to the 9/11 novel
2. Human dignity, the ‘War on Terror’ and post-9/11 Pakistani fiction
3. Writing against neocolonial necropolitics: literary responses by Iraqi/Arab writers to the US ‘War on Terror’
4. Speaking for the Muslim world: popular memoir and the ‘War on Terror’
5. ‘Living literally in terror’: Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary and the autoimmunitary politics of dehumanisation in the ‘War on Terror’
6. Omar Khadr, Guantánamo and carceral gastronomy
7. Transatlantic transactions: UK–US relations and the ‘War on Terror’ in Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer
8. (De)humanising images and cinematic heterotopias: drone warfare in film
9. Performing sovereignty: war documentaries and documentary wars in Syria