Terror myths and scenes of violence: A visual essay.

This essay brings attention to the representation of terror, to highlight the visual engagement with terror discourses. By looking at a spectrum of images that evoke revolutionary politics, the Gulf War, 9/11 and 26/11 (the Mumbai attack), and an Anti-Terrorist Squad interrogation, this essay focuses on a colonial chromolithograph, submissions to an amateur cartoon contest, sand sculptures, and an illustration of torture testimony in India. These disparate visual scenes offer juxtapositions and readings of terror that cannot be easily categorized as either universal or local discourses, and history or myth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]