Unspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11 0367248972, 9780367248970
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
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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