Ulrike Meinhof and the Red Army Faction
Subtitle: performing terrorism
By: Leith Passmore
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780230337473
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Terrorism; Women terrorists; Rote Armee Fraktion; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism; HISTORY / Social History; Women journalists; Terrorism; HISTORY / Europe / Germany; Biography; History
Description: "Ulrike Meinhof's entrance into the West German terrorist underground was both a footnote to the waning student movement of the late 1960s, and a preamble to the bloodiest period in Germany's post-war history. Meinhof fought to make herself heard as a high-profile journalist before becoming a founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in 1970. She continued writing in the underground and from 1972, in prison, until she was found dead in her cell in 1976. Leith Passmore traces Meinhof's struggle to communicate from her time as a journalist, through her escape to the underground, her prison years, and the Stammheim trial. He examines for the first time the performativity of terrorist acts of language, imagery, and physical violence to reveal how Meinhof made and re-made RAF terrorism"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.