The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism in Public Discourse, Literature, and Film: Narrating Terror

ISBN-13: 9780367667764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 294 str.

Michael Frank

Opis

This study investigates the overlaps between political discourse and literary and cinematic fiction, arguing that both are informed by, and contribute to, the cultural imaginary of terrorism. It explores the ways in which clandestine political violence stimulates the collective imagination, proposing that terror is a halfway house between the re

Spis treści

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Introduction: The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism

I. "Terrorism" and "Terror": Historical and Conceptual Frameworks

II. Imagining Clandestine Operations: Early Literary Responses to Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism

III. Imagining Future Attacks: Turn-of-the-Century Tales of Terrorist Invasion

IV. "Terrorist Aliens": 9/11 and/as Science Fiction

V. It Could Happen Here: Narrating Terror after 9/11

Conclusion

References

O autorze

Michael C. Frank is temporary Professor of Anglophone Literatures at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany.