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Author Passmore, Leith, 1981- author.

Title Ulrike Meinhof and the Red Army Faction : performing terrorism / Leith Passmore
Edition First edition
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 212 pages)
Contents Introduction: Performing Terrorism -- Where Words Fail -- Writing Under Ground -- The Art of Hunger -- Show, Trial, and Error -- SUICIDE = MURDER = SUICIDE -- Conclusion: Voices and Echoes
Summary "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"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-200) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Meinhof, Ulrike Marie
SUBJECT Meinhof, Ulrike Marie fast
Meinhof, Ulrike Marie 1934-1976 gnd
Meinhof, Ulrike M. idszbz
Meinhof, Ulrike Marie. (DE-588c)4038448-2 swd
Subject Rote Armee Fraktion -- History
SUBJECT Rote Armee Fraktion fast
Rote-Armee-Fraktion gnd
Rote-Armee-Fraktion. idszbz
Subject Women terrorists -- Germany (West) -- Biography
Women journalists -- Germany (West) -- Biography
Terrorism -- Germany (West) -- History
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
HISTORY -- Social History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Terrorism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Terrorism
Women journalists
Women terrorists
Terroristin.
Germany (West)
Deutschland.
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230370777
0230370772
1349340960
9781349340965