An edition of Terror and the arts (2008)

Terror and the arts

artistic, literary, and political interpretations of violence from Dostoyevksy to Abu Ghraib

1st ed.
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An edition of Terror and the arts (2008)

Terror and the arts

artistic, literary, and political interpretations of violence from Dostoyevksy to Abu Ghraib

1st ed.

"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."--Jacket.

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Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
252

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Table of Contents

The implicated spectator: from Manet to Botero / Frank Möller
Art in the age of terror: the Israeli case / Dana Arieli-Horowitz
The aura of terror? / Kia Lindroos
Dostoyevsky on terror and the question of the West / Margaret Heller
To this side of good and evil: Primo Levi as a truth-teller / Tuija Parvikko
Narrating the trauma: Georges Perec's W ou le souvenir d'enfance / Kuisma Korhonen
Too much terror? J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and the circulation of trauma / Matti Hyvärinen
Dictators and dictatorships: arts and politics in Romania and Chile (1974-89) / Caterina Preda
Inciting mental terror as effective governmental control: Chinese propaganda posters during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) / Minna Valjakka
The Sweet Hereafter of Machiavelli and Weber: discussing community and responsibility as political-ethical criteria / Javier Franzé
The violence of lying / Olivia Guaraldo
Terrorized by sound? Foucault on terror, resistance, and sonorous art / Lauri Siisiäinen

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York, N.Y

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
700/.4552
Library of Congress
NX650.T48 T47 2008, HM621-HM656

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 252 p. :
Number of pages
252

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22970056M
Internet Archive
terrorartsartist00hyva
ISBN 10
0230606717
ISBN 13
9780230606715
LCCN
2007047880
OCLC/WorldCat
181601078
Library Thing
8154210
Goodreads
3066671

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