Dead Narrators, Queer Terrorists: On Suicide Bombing and Literature

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New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1353/nlh.2022.0013

Doyle Calhoun

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Abstract

Abstract:Even as suicide bombing attacks have become a disturbingly regular feature of today's geopolitical landscape, the phenomenon continues to figure an upper limit to thinking on contemporary violence. As psychoanalyst Jacqueline Rose writes in The Last Resistance, suicide bombing is considered "a peculiarly monstrous, indeed inhuman, aberration that cannot—or indeed must not—be understood."1 Although statistically, Rose points out, suicide bombings claim far fewer victims than acts of conventional warfare and state violence, neoliberal democracies in the West reserve a special kind of dread and antipathy for the suicide bomber. Perhaps this is because suicide terrorist attacks, as Alex Houen suggests, are both "experienced and expressed as hyperbole," or because they provoke a public response that can only be classified in terms of sheer "horror."2

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死去的叙述者、同性恋恐怖分子:论自杀式爆炸与文学

摘要:尽管自杀式炸弹袭击已成为当今地缘政治格局中令人不安的常规特征，但这种现象仍在为当代暴力思考设定上限。正如精神分析学家杰奎琳·罗斯在《最后的抵抗》中所写的那样，自杀式爆炸被认为是“一种特别可怕的，实际上是不人道的，不能或确实不应该被理解的失常行为。”Rose指出，虽然从统计数据来看，自杀式爆炸造成的受害者远少于常规战争和国家暴力，但西方的新自由主义民主国家对自杀式爆炸者怀有一种特殊的恐惧和反感。也许这是因为自杀式恐怖袭击，正如Alex Houen所说的那样，既“经历过，又被夸张地表达出来”，或者是因为它们激起了公众的反应，只能被归类为纯粹的“恐怖”。“2

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New Literary History LITERATURE-

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期刊介绍： New Literary History focuses on questions of theory, method, interpretation, and literary history. Rather than espousing a single ideology or intellectual framework, it canvasses a wide range of scholarly concerns. By examining the bases of criticism, the journal provokes debate on the relations between literary and cultural texts and present needs. A major international forum for scholarly exchange, New Literary History has received six awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.