Goodman Policing Narratives and the State of Terror

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4384-2905-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 219 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Examines the recent “War on Terror” and the increasing privatization of international policing through the lens of detective fiction and security and espionage narratives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodman, Robin Truth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. They Came Back to Baghdad

2.From the Feminist Detective to the Security State Hero: Division of Labor and the State of Exception

3. Terrorist Hunter: Walter Mosley, the Urban Plot, and the Terror War

4. The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw

5. Military Literati: Yasmina Khadra and the Veil

Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robin Truth Goodman is Associate Professor of English at Florida State University. She is the author of World, Class, Women: Global Literature, Education, and Feminism; Infertilities: Exploring Fictions of Barren Bodies; and (with Kenneth J. Saltman) Strange Love: Or How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market.