Terror and the Postcolonial

Herausgegeben von Boehmer, Elleke; Morton, Stephen

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Produktbeschreibung

Terror and the Postcolonial is a major comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture.

A ground-breaking study addressing and theorizing the relationship between postcolonial studies, colonial history, and terrorism through a series of contemporary and historical case studies from various postcolonial contexts
Critically analyzes the figuration of terrorism in a variety of postcolonial literary texts from South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
Raises the subject of terror as both an expression of globalization and a postcolonial product
Features key essays by well-known theorists, such as Robert J. C. Young, Derek Gregory, and Achille Mbembe, and Vron Ware

Produktdetails

• Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781119056195
• ISBN-10: 1119056195
• Artikelnr.: 42101488

Autorenporträt

Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literatures in English at the University of Oxford, well known for her research in international writing and postcolonial theory, she has published over twenty books, among them Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors (1995, 2005), Empire, the National and the Postcolonial (2002), Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction (2008), Networks of Empire (2015) and The Shouting in the Dark (2015), her fifth novel. Stephen Morton is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton. He is currently completing a study of colonial states of emergency in literature and law, 1905-2005, and is the author of several books and articles on postcolonial literature and thought, including Salman Rushdie: Fictions of Postcolonial Modernity (2007) and Gayatri Spivak: Ethics, Subalternity and the Critique of Postcolonial Reason (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Terror and the
Postcolonial 1 Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton Part I Theories of
Colonial and Postcolonial Terror 25 1 The Colony: Its Guilty Secret and Its
Accursed Share 27 Achille Mbembe 2 Vanishing Points: Law, Violence, and
Exception in the Global War Prison 55 Derek Gregory 3 The White Fear Factor
99 Vron Ware 4 Sacrificial Militancy and the Wars around Terror 113 Alex
Houen 5 Postcolonial Writing and Terror 141 Elleke Boehmer Part II
Histories of Post/colonial Terror 151 6 Revolutionary Terrorism in British
Bengal 153 Peter Heehs 7 Excavating Histories of Terror: Thugs,
Sovereignty, and the Colonial Sublime 177 Alex Tickell 8 Terrorism,
Literature, and Sedition in Colonial India 202 Stephen Morton 9 Israel in
the US Empire 226 Bashir Abu-Manneh 10 The Poetics of State Terror in
Twenty-first-century Zimbabwe 254 Ranka Primorac 11 The Mediation of
"Terror": Authority, Journalism, and the Stockwell Shooting 273 Stuart
Price Part III Genres of Terror 305 12 Terror Effects 307 Robert J. C.
Young 13 "Gendering" Terror: Representations of the Female "Freedom
Fighter" in Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature and Cultural Production 329
Neluka Silva 14 Terror, Spectacle, and the Secular State in Bombay Cinema
345 Sujala Singh 15 "The age of reason was over . . . an age of fury was
dawning": Contemporary Fiction and Terror 361 Robert Eaglestone 16 Bodies
of Terror: Performer and Witness 370 Emma Brodzinski Index 381

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"Addressing issues ranging across race, gender, history, literature and militancy, [it examines] at times contentious and confronting perspectives of the world in which we live, how global terrorism and fear came into being, and the possible triggers for the ongoing confrontations challenging global unity ... The text is not too dry or overburdened with longwinded narrative, but is thought provoking and image-shattering. Terror and the Postcolonial will take the wind out of the sails of anyone who believes we live in a world where terrorism is the sole property of extremists, religious zealots and bigots." M/C Journal