7. Militancy, Maternity and Masquerade in Santosh Sivan’s The Terrorist

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. 1. Introduction: The Figure of the Terrorist in Literature and Visual Culture 1
6. PART ONE HISTORICISING THE FIGURE OF THE TERRORIST: CROSS-MEDIA PERSPECTIVES
7. 2. The Psychology of Post-War Revolutionary Terrorism in Muriel Spark’s The Only Problem and Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist 29
8. 3. Sympathy for the Devil? The Changing Face of the IRA in American Superhero Comics 47
9. 4. Terrorists and Hooligans: Re-politicising a De-politicised Figure in Contemporary Representations of British Football Culture 67
10. 5. Screening Railway Terrorists: Light Modernity, Invisible Threats and the Aesthetics of Concealment in The 15:17 to Paris and Bodyguard 87
11. 6. ‘Nothing Terroristic About Him’: The Figure of the Terrorist in Karan Mahajan’s The Association of Small Bombs 105
12. PART TWO GENDER, IDENTITY AND TERRORISM
13. 7. Militancy, Maternity and Masquerade in Santosh Sivan’s The Terrorist 125
14. 8. The Female Counter-Strike: Terrorising Patriarchy in Hindi Cinema 143
15. 9. Contrasting Terrorist Figures: Far-Right Extremists and Jihadists in Contemporary French Cinema 165
16. 10. ‘I Was a Big Girl. I Could Pack My Bags and Leave’: ISIS and Female Emancipation in Tabish Khair’s Just Another Jihadi Jane 183
17. PART THREE INTIMATE ENEMIES: FEELING FOR THE TERRORIST?
18. 11. Circumventing the Condemnation Imperative: The Figure of the Female Suicide Bomber in Akin and El Akkad 203
19. 12. Discomfort and Documentary Film: The Figure of the White Extremist in Deeyah Khan’s White Right 223
20. 13. Intimate Conflicts: Rebels, Heroes and Disfigured Terrorists in Burmese Anglophone Literature 245
21. Afterword 263
22. Index 275