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02397aam a2200325Ma 4500 001 29687E4AFCE711E799AF106097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180119010249 008 130419s2010 nyu b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 098253096X 020 $a 9780982530962 035 $a (OCoLC)840183345 040 $a CUY $b eng $c CUY $d YDXCP $d SINTU $d OCLCQ $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 050 4 $a PN56.D4 $b F47 2010 100 1 $a Fernando, Jeremy. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009042191 245 14 $a The suicide bomber : $b and her gift of death / $c Jeremy Fernando. 264 1 $a New York ; $b Atropos Press, $c 2010. 300 $a xxiii, 263 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Think media : EGS media philosophy series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-245). 520 $a This book is an attempt to defend the undefendable: the suicide bomber as a figure of thinking, a figure that foregrounds the singularity of each event; and it is this un-understandability-which is part of understanding itself-that the suicide bomber never lets us forget. For, the suicide bomber is the poet par excellence, reminding us of the possibility of an event; not because of the effects of her actions, but due to the gift of her life, and more importantly the unknowability that is her death. And like with poetry, all analysis only makes it worse. In this manner, (s)he remains an unending question for us; a question that even questions itself as a question. And if one maintains the question, one is always already other to everything, other even to one's self. In this way, the gap between the self and the other is maintained such that this space is never taken hostage. For, the moment this space of negotiation is gone, we are in the realm of terror. 650 0 $a Death in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85036108 650 0 $a Suicide in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85129749 650 0 $a Ceremonial exchange in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00001223 650 0 $a Literature $x Philosophy. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077524 650 0 $a Suicide bombers $x Discourse analysis. 830 0 $a Think media. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009184456 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180119030439.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=29687E4AFCE711E799AF106097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search