Terror and the Arts
Artistic, Literary, and Political Interpretations of Violence from Dostoyevsky to Abu Ghraib
Hyvarinen, Matti (EDT)
Muszynski, Lisa (EDT)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Terror, dread, and violence against civilian populations constitute a true predicament of our contemporary political world. Authoritarian governments develop methods to capitalize on the arts in support of terror, where violence and trauma provoke more of the same in a vicious circle. This book argues that the arts—from film and literature to painting and comics—offers qualitatively different readings of terror and trauma, readings that endeavor to resist the exploitation and perpetuation of violence. The contributors suggest that political inquiry into the phenomenon of terror may benefit profoundly by developing non-reductive ways of reading the arts.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0230606717
Dewey Decimal: 700/.4552
Library of Congress: 2007047880
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 252
