Book

Prologue to Modern Folktales

1. The Modern in Modern Folktales
2. What a Folktale is
3. The Software in Your Head
4. What a Modern Folktale is, the Problem of the Internet, and Reality Television
5. A Dialog Trapped in the Morass of the Many-Headed Beast
6. The Story is the Untold Story
7. A Modern World, an Abstract World: The Distance Between Meaning and Words
8. Who Do You Aspire to Be?

Book I — Modern Monsters

I prefer my fears on the surface where I can keep an eye on them.

- cog

Ch. 1: Preface: The Modern Monster, a Working Definition

1. Monsters and Masters
2. ModernFolktales.com Definition of Monster
3. Summary of the Modern Monster on ModernFolktales.com
4. The Colloquial Monster
5. Origins of the Monster-Concept
6. The Monster Animus
7. Battling the Monster
8. Demonization and Monstrification
9. Beyond Good and Evil

Ch. 2: Who or What are Contemporary Monsters?

1. Conceiving the Modern Monster
2. Words in the Media that Define [Create?] our Idea of Monsters
3. 9-11 Summary
4. Monster # 1: Terrorists
   1. Islamic Terrorists
   2. Other Terrorists / Lone Wolf Domestic Terrorists
5. Pictures of Terrorists in the News
   1. Recent Lone Wolf Terrorist Pictures
6. Memorable Quotes of Western Officials Regarding Terrorists Since 1998
7. Monster # 2: The Sexual Predator
8. Pictures of Sexual Predators in the News
9. Memorable Quotes About Sexual Predators
10. Other Monsters?

Ch. 3: Terrorist versus Insurgent: The Protean Monster and The Variable Nature of Words

1. Summary (The Terrorist as a Modern Monster)
2. United States Definition of Terrorism
3. A Slight and Airy Discourse: Insurgent or Terrorist?
4. Back to the terrorism definition
5. Reconciling Terrorism, Insurgency, and Militancy

Ch. 4: Hunting the Terrorists — Actions Borne Out of Words

1. Connotations of Hunting Terrorists
2. U.S. Terror Rhetoric Gives Birth to Legal and Policy Changes
3. The Authority to Detain and Kill

Ch. 5: The Monster Dialectic

1. Suicide Bombers
2. The Three Voices of the War on Terror and the Unheard Fourth Voice
   1. Iraqi Public Opinion
      1. IRAQ: WHERE THINGS STAND 2007
      2. PUBLIC ATTITUDES IN IRAQ: FOUR YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF INVASION
   2. Afghan Public Opinion
      1. Survey of the Afghan People for the Year 2009
   3. Afghan Civilians Angry Over Deaths
      1. Afghan Civilian Deaths Rise 40% in 2008
      2. Children Die in Explosion
      3. Statements of Afghans Affected by the War
      4. Table 1. Excerpts from CIVIC Report: Losing the People
   4. Pakistani Public Opinion
   5. American Public Opinion
      1. American Support for War in Afghanistan
      2. American Support for War in Iraq
3. The Global War on Terror Consensus: What the People Do Not Want
4. Conceptual Distance Required to Maintain Monster Status
5. The Monster Story Matrix
6. The Spreading War on Terror
7. Examples How the War on Terrorism and Terrorists are Portrayed in the Western and Eastern Media
   1. The American Anti-War Veteran
   2. The Pro-War American Politician
   3. Aljazeera Interview with Osama Bin Laden oct 21, 2001 (English)
   4. The Radicalized Terrorist and the Culture of Terrorism
      1. The New York Times, How Baida Wanted to Die
      2. City Lights Pictures, Suicide Killers
   5. The Simpleton Terrorist
      1. EDCorps, Interview with a suicide bomber
   6. Born and Raised Terrorists
      1. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Compilation of Videos of Children in the Jihadi Cause
   7. The Islamic Conspiracy to Take Over the World
      1. The Third Jihad (30 minute free version)
   8. Middle Eastern Perspectives of the West
      1. Anti-US feeling still high in Afghanistan
      2. As-sahab Foundation of Media Production Presents: How to Prevent a Repeat of the Gaza Holocaust
      3. Karzai Criticises Foreign Forces
      4. Haifa Zangana on Iraqi Resistance

Ch. 6: Conclusions About Terrorists and Monsters

This chapter is still in progress…

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