Ulrike Meinhof and the Red Army Faction [electronic resource] : Performing Terrorism /
Passmore, L.author.
With a communicative approach to the phenomenon of terrorism and new archival sources, the book documents Meinhof's journalism and terrorism (1959-1976) and challenges many of the established narratives that have calcified around the story of Meinhof and the history of Germany's most infamous terrorist group.
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Cover; Ulrike Meinhof and the Red Army Faction: Performing Terrorism; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; INTRODUCTION: Performing Terrorism; CHAPTER 1: Where Words Fail; Meinhof and the Opinion Industry; Meinhof and "Authoritarian" Journalism; Meinhof, the Media, Writing, and Language; CHAPTER 2: Writing Underground; Opening Statements: Formation and Branding; Declarations: Words, Bombs, and the Visual War Narrative; Treatises: Picturesque Ideology; CHAPTER 3: The Art of Hunger; The Strikes; Self-Starvation as Holy Hunger; Self-Starvation as Countermedicalization
CHAPTER 4: Show, Trial, and ErrorShow Trial; Political Prisoner Status; Project Prisoner of War; CHAPTER 5: SUICIDE = MURDER = SUICIDE; May 8- 9, 1976: Event and Reception; October 18, 1977: Event and Reception; "Self"-Killing: A Discourse of Suicide; CONCLUSION: Voices and Echoes; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
With a communicative approach to the phenomenon of terrorism and new archival sources, the book documents Meinhof's journalism and terrorism (1959-1976) and challenges many of the established narratives that have calcified around the story of Meinhof and the history of Germany's most infamous terrorist group.
Meinhof, Ulrike Marie.
Rote Armee Fraktion
Political theory.
Civilization—History.
Europe—History.
History, Modern.
Europe, Central—History.
Terrorism.
Political violence.
Political Theory.
Cultural History.
European History.
Modern History.
History of Germany and Central Europe.
Terrorism and Political Violence.