The Moro Morality Play: Terrorism as Social Drama

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University of Chicago Press, 15 nov 1986 - 360 pagina's
On March 16, 1978, the former prime minister of Italy, Aldo Moro, was kidnapped by the Red Brigades, and what followed—the fifty-five days of captivity that resulted in Moro's murder—constitutes one of the most striking social dramas of the twentieth century. In this compelling study of terrorism, Robin Wagner-Pacifici employs methods from sociology, symbolic anthropology, and literary criticism to decode the many social "texts" that shaped the event: political speeches, newspaper reports, television and radio news, editorials, photographs, Moro's letters, Red Brigade communiques, and appeals by various international figures. The analysis of these "texts" calls into question the function of politics, social drama, spectacle, and theater. Wagner-Pacifici provides a dramaturgic analysis of the Moro affair as a method for discussing the culture of politics in Italy.
 

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Introduction
1
The Social Drama
7
The Significance
13
3
94
Definition
122
The Significance of Negotiation as
134
5
164
6
205
Moro Public and Moro Private
212
The Praxis of Reconciliation and
239
Conclusion
272
Modes of Mediation
292
Notes
307
Bibliography
339
Index
349
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Robin Wagner-Pacifici is the University in Exile Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of many books.

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