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The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism in Public Discourse, Literature, and Film - Narrating Terror (Paperback)
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The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism in Public Discourse, Literature, and Film - Narrating Terror (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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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.
Whenever mass-mediated acts of terrorism occur, they tend to
trigger a proliferation of threat scenarios not only in the realm
of literature and film but also in the statements of policymakers,
security experts, and journalists. In the process, the discursive
boundary between the factual and the speculative can become
difficult to discern. To elucidate this phenomenon, this book
proposes that terror is a halfway house between the real and the
imaginary. For what characterizes terrorism is less the single act
of violence than it is the fact that this act is perceived to be
the beginning, or part, of a potential series, and that further
acts are expected to occur. As turn-of-the-century writers such as
Stevenson and Conrad were the first to point out, this gives terror
a fantastical dimension, a fact reinforced by the clandestine
nature of both terrorist and counter-terrorist operations.
Supported by contextual readings of selected texts and films from
The Dynamiter and The Secret Agent through late-Victorian science
fiction to post-9/11 novels and cinema, this study explores the
complex interplay between actual incidents of political violence,
the surrounding discourse, and fictional engagement with the issue
to show how terrorism becomes an object of fantasy. Drawing on
research from a variety of disciplines, The Cultural Imaginary of
Terrorism will be a valuable resource for those with interests in
the areas of Literature and Film, Terrorism Studies, Peace and
Conflict Studies, Trauma Studies, and Cultural Studies.
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