Unspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11

ISBN-13: 9780367249007 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 212 str.

Peter C. Herman

Opis

This book explores the representation of terrorism in plays, novels and films across the centuries, arguing that writers and filmmakers including William Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, and Steven Spielberg confront the unspeakable by attempting to examining the roots of terrorist violence.

Spis treści

Introduction: Speakable/Unspeakable: The Rhetoric of Terrorism  1. "A Deed without a Name": Macbeth, the Gunpowder Plot, and Terrorism  2. Terrorism and the Nineteenth Century: From the French Revolution to the Stevensons, Greer, James, Conrad, and the Rosetti Sisters  3. When Terrorism Becomes Speakable: Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers and the Literature of the Troubles  4. Israel/Palestine: Unspeakability in John le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl, Steven Spielberg, Munich, and Mohammed Moulessehoul [Yasmina Khadra], The Attack  5. "Why do they hate us?": Updike, Hamid, DeLillo  6. Epilogue: Where Do We Go From Here? Nadeem Aslam, Amy Waldman, and Jodi Picoult

O autorze

Peter C. Herman is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University.