Bloodscripts: Writing the Violent Subject (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780814251195)

We live in an increasingly violent world. From suicide terrorists to serial killers, violent subjects challenge our imaginations. We seek answers to our questions on this subject in literature, cinema, and electronic media. In Bloodscripts, Elana Gomel examines how popular culture narratives construct violent subjectivity. Using such various narratives as mystery, horror; detective, and fantasy fiction as well as accounts of the atrocities perpetuated by serial killers and the Holocaust, Bloodscripts offers a new map of the genres of violence and links the twin obsessions of postmodern culture: crime and genocide. Bloodscripts is a stimulating, original, and accessible account of the narrative construction of the violent subject. It proposes a narrative model that will be of interest to literary critics, cultural scholars, criminologists, and anyone trying to understand the role of violence in postmodern culture.

Author: Elana Gomel
ISBN-10: 0814251196
ISBN-13: 9780814251195
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2004
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.02w x 0.65d