Beschreibung:
Challenging the predominantly Euro-American approaches to the field, this volume captures the multiple transnational reverberations of the discourses on terrorism, counter-terrorism and insurgency.
Narratives of the War on Terror: Introduction1. Transparency into opacity: Nadeem Aslam's alternative to the 9/11 novel2. Human dignity, the 'War on Terror' and post-9/11 Pakistani fiction3. Writing against neocolonial necropolitics: literary responses by Iraqi/Arab writers to the US 'War on Terror' 4. Speaking for the Muslim world: popular memoir and the 'War on Terror'5. 'Living literally in terror': Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Guantánamo Diary and the autoimmunitary politics of dehumanisation in the 'War on Terror'6. Omar Khadr, Guantánamo and carceral gastronomy7. Transatlantic transactions: UK-US relations and the 'War on Terror' in Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer 8. (De)humanising images and cinematic heterotopias: drone warfare in film 9. Performing sovereignty: war documentaries and documentary wars in Syria