Plotting Terror : Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scanlan, Margaret, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Terrorism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, VA, USA University of Virginia Press 20010501

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Her analyses take the reader on a fascinating exploration of the relationship between actual bombs and stories about bombings, from the modern world to its electronic representation, and from the exercise of political power to the fiction writer's power in the world.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: The Terrorist Rival

Chapter 1: Don DeLillo's Mao II and the Rushdie Affair

Chapter 2: Eoin McNamee's Resurrection Man

Part II: Displaced Causes

Chapter 3: Mary McCarthy's Cannibals and Missionaries

Chapter 4: Doris Lessing's The Good Terrorist

Part III: Novelist as Terrorist: Terrorism as Fiction

Chapter 5: J. M. Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg

Chapter 6: Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Assignment

Part IV: Is Terrorism Dead?

Chapter 7: Philip Roth's and Robert Stone's Jerusalem Novels

Chapter 8: Volodine's Lisbonne Dernière Marge

Epilogue: Conrad and the Unabomber

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9786613585219

9781280489983

1280489987

9780813921921

0813921929

OCLC:

65562456