Terrorism and Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108498241)

Terrorism has long been a major shaping force in the world. However, the meanings of terrorism, as a word and as a set of actions, are intensely contested. This volume explores how literature has dealt with terrorism from the Renaissance to today, inviting the reader to make connections between older instances of terrorism and contemporary ones, and to see how the various literary treatments of terrorism draw on each other. The essays demonstrate that the debates around terrorism only give the fictive imagination more room, and that fiction has a great deal to offer in terms of both understanding terrorism and our responses to it. Written by historians and literary critics, the essays provide essential knowledge to understand terrorism in its full complexity. As befitting a global problem, this book brings together a truly international group of scholars, with representatives from America, Scotland, Canada, New Zealand, Italy, Israel, and other countries.

Author: Peter C. Herman
ISBN-10: 1108498248
ISBN-13: 9781108498241
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2018
Pages: 542
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.94lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.46w x 1.38d