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Unspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11 explores the representation of terrorism in plays,

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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Speakable/Unspeakable: The Rhetoric of Terrorism
Notes
Chapter 1 “A Deed Without a Name”: Macbeth, the Gunpowder Plot, and Terrorism
The Gunpowder Plot
Macbeth
The Folio Macbeth and Simon Forman
Notes
Chapter 2 Terrorism in the Nineteenth Century: From the French Revolution to the Stevensons, Greer, James, Conrad, and the Rossetti Sisters
An Archeology of “Terrorism”
The Dynamiter
A Modern Daedalus
Henry James, The Princess Casamassima
“Isabel Meredith” (Helen and Olivia Rossetti), A Girl Among the Anarchists and Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
Notes
Chapter 3 When Terrorism Becomes Speakable: Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers and the Literature of the Troubles
Terrorism Becomes Speakable
Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers
Terrorism, Speakability, and the Literature of Northern Ireland
Notes
Chapter 4 Israel/Palestine: Unspeakability in John le Carré’s The Little Drummer Girl, Steven Spielberg’s Munich, and Mohammed Moulessehoul [Yasmina Khadra]’s The Attack
From Speakability to Unspeakability
John le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl
Stephen Spielberg, Munich
Yasmina Khadra [Mohammed Moulessehoul], The Attack
Notes
Chapter 5 “Why Do They Hate Us?”: Updike, Hamid, DeLillo
The Unspeakability of 9/11
John Updike, Terrorist
Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Don DeLillo, Falling Man
Notes
Epilogue: Where Do We Go from Here? Nadeem Aslam, Amy Waldman, and Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult and Domestic Terrorism
Notes
Index

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