Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror

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Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Series Editor The Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies publishes single-authored and thematic collected volumes of new scholarship. Manuscripts are invited for publication in the series in fields of the study of culture, literature, the arts, media studies, communication studies, the history of ideas, etc., and related disciplines of the humanities and social sciences to the series editor via email at . Comparative cultural studies is a contextual approach in the study of culture in a global and intercultural context and work with a plurality of methods and approaches; the theoretical and methodological framework of comparative cultural studies is built on tenets borrowed from the disciplines of cultural studies and comparative literature and from a range of thought including literary and culture theory, (radical) constructivism , communication theories, and systems theories; in comparative cultural studies focus is on theory and method as well as application. For a detailed description of the aims and scope of the series including the style guide of the series link to . Manuscripts submitted to the series are peer reviewed followed by the usual standards of editing, copy editing, marketing, and distribution. The series is affiliated with CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (ISSN 1481-4374), the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access quarterly published by Purdue University Press at . Volumes in the Purdue series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror, Ed. Sophia A. McClennen and Henry James Morello Michael Goddard, Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism, and the Subversion of Form Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace, Ed. Alexander C.Y. Huang and Charles S. Ross Gustav Shpet's Contribution to Philosophy and Cultural Theory, Ed. Galin Tihanov Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies, Ed. Louise O. Vasvári and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Marko Juvan, History and Poetics of Intertextuality Thomas O. Beebee, Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction Paolo Bartoloni, On the Cultures of Exile, Translation, and Writing Justyna Sempruch, Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature Kimberly Chabot Davis, Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences Philippe Codde, The Jewish American Novel Deborah Streifford Reisinger, Crime and Media in Contemporary France Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature, Ed. Louise O. Vasvári and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Camilla Fojas, Cosmopolitanism in the Americas Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing, Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Jin Feng, The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America, Ed. Sophia A. McClennen and Earl E. Fitz Sophia A. McClennen, The Dialectics of Exile Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Comparative Central European Culture, Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror Edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Henry James Morello Purdue University Press West Lafayette, Indiana Copyright 2010 by Purdue University. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror / edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Henry James Morello. p. cm. -- (Comparative cultural studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-55753-568-9 1. Human rights. 2. War on Terrorism, 2001-2009. 3. War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Press coverage. 4. Terrorism. 5. Terrorism in mass media. I. McClennen, Sophia A. II. Morello, Henry James, 1965JC571 .R473 2010 323.4'9--dc22 2010009892 For Isabel and Sebastian ...