Literature and Terrorism: Comparative Perspectives (Textxet. Studies in Comparative Literature, 66) - Softcover

9789042034983: Literature and Terrorism: Comparative Perspectives (Textxet. Studies in Comparative Literature, 66)

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ISBN 10: 904203498X ISBN 13: 9789042034983

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2012

The years following the attacks of September 11, 2001 have seen the publication of a wide range of scientific analyses of terrorism. Literary studies seem to lag curiously behind this general shift of academic interest. The present volume sets out to fill this gap. It does so in the conviction that the study of literature has much to offer to the transdisciplinary investigation of terror, not only with respect to the present post-9/11 situation but also with respect to earlier historical contexts. Literary texts are media of cultural self-reflection, and as such they have always played a crucial role in the discursive response to terror, both contributing to and resisting dominant conceptions of the causes, motivations, dynamics, and aftermath of terrorist violence. By bringing together experts from various fields and by combining case studies of works from diverse periods and national literatures, the volume Literature and Terrorism chooses a diachronic and comparative perspective. It is interested in the specific cultural work performed by narrative and dramatic literature in the face of terrorism, focusing on literature's ambivalent relationship to other, competing modes of discourse.

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Review

In its entirety, Literature and Terrorism is clearly the more comprehensive and more nuanced of the two volumes, with a broader scope, a larger extent of theoretical groundwork, and a more diversified and critical approach to the phenomenon that 9/11 has become over the past thirteen years. -Birgit Dawes, Flensburg, in Amerikastudien / American Studies , vol. 60.1 2016"

"In its entirety, Literature and Terrorism is clearly the more comprehensive and more nuanced of the two volumes, with a broader scope, a larger extent of theoretical groundwork, and a more diversified and critical approach to the phenomenon that '9/11' has become over the past thirteen years." -Birgit Dawes, Flensburg, in Amerikastudien / American Studies , vol. 60.1 2016

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