Unspeakable : literature and terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11 /

Unspeakable: Fiction and the Representation of Terrorism explores the representation of terrorism in plays, novels and films across the centuries. Time and time again, writers and filmmakers including William Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Gillo Pontecorvo, Don DeLillo, John Updike and Ste...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Herman, Peter C., 1958- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, [2020].
Subjects:	Terrorism in literature. Political violence in literature. Terrorism in motion pictures. Political violence in motion pictures. Terrorism > History. Political violence > History. Terrorism > Social aspects. Political violence > Social aspects. Terrorism > Psychological aspects. Political violence > Psychological aspects. Political violence. Terrorism. History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: speakable/unspeakable: the rhetoric of terrorism
"A deed without a name": Macbeth, the Gunpowder Plot, and terrorism
Terrorism in the nineteenth century : from the French Revolution to the Stevensons, Greer, James, Conrad, and the Rossetti sisters
When terrorism becomes speakable: Pontecorvo's The battle of Algiers and the literature of the troubles
Israel/Palestine: unspeakability in John le Carré's, The little drummer girl, Steven Spielberg's, Munich and Mohammed Moulessehoul [Yasmina Khadra]'s The attack
"Why do they hate us?": Updike, Hamid, and DeLillo
Epilogue: where do we go from here? Nadeem Aslam, Amy Waldman, and Jodi Picoult.