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Ulrike Meinhof and West German terrorism :

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1571137513

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9781571137517

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1571134158

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9781571134158

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b747824

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Ulrike Meinhof and West German terrorism :

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[Book]

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language, violence, and identity /

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Sarah Colvin.

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Rochester, N.Y. :

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Camden House,

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2009.

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1 online resource (xii, 265 pages).

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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction : terrorists, language, and the state -- 1. Fighting talk (1959-69) : from peace movement to the revolutionary legitimacy of violence -- 2. The personal is political (1966-70) : from feminism to a language for the revolution -- 3. The shrinking circle (1970-72) : from die rote armee aufbauen to the May bombings -- 4. Drawing a line between the enemy and ourselves : the language trap -- 5. Violence as identity : prison writing, 1972-76 -- 6. Violence as a woman's identity? : Terrorism and gender -- Conclusion : From warrior revolutionaries to logical fallacies : language, violence, and identity.

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"In 1970 Ulrike Meinhof abandoned a career as a political journalist to join the Red Army Faction; captured as a terrorist along with other members of the group in 1972, she died an unexplained death in a high-security prison in 1976. A charismatic spokesperson for the RAF, she has often come near to being idealized as a freedom fighter, despite her use and advocacy of extreme violence. In an effort to understand how terrorism takes root, Sarah Colvin seeks a dispassionate view of Meinhof and a period when West Germany was declaring its own "war on terror."" "Ulrike Meinhof always remained a writer, and this book focuses on the role of language in her development and that of the RAF: how Meinhof came to justify violence to the point of murder, creating an identity for the RAF as resistance fighters in an imagined state of war that was reinforced by the state's adoption of what Andreas Musolff has called "war terminology." But its all-powerful identity as a fighting group eroded the RAF's empathy with other human beings - even those it once claimed to be "fighting for." It became a closed unit, self-justifying and immobilized by its own conviction that everything it did must be right. This is the first specialized study of Meinhof and the RAF in English."--Jacket.

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JSTOR

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MIL

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22573/ctt235mw

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279561

Title

Ulrike Meinhof and West German terrorism.

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9781571134158

Meinhof, Ulrike Marie.

Meinhof, Ulrike Marie.

Meinhof, Ulrike Marie.

Meinhof, Ulrike Marie.

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Rote-Armee-Fraktion

Political violence.

Terrorism-- Germany (West)-- History.

Terrorism in literature.

Women terrorists-- Germany (West)

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- German.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- German.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom & Security-- Terrorism.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom & Security-- Terrorism.

Political violence.

Terrorism in literature.

Terrorism.

Women terrorists.

Germany (West)

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POL-- 037000

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Colvin, Sarah

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20201204075405.0

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