Terror And The Postcolonial Elleke Boehmer Stephen Morton by Elleke Boehmer, Stephen Morton 9781405191548, 9781444310085, 1405191546, 1444310089 instant download after payment.
Terror and the Postcolonial is a major new comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture.
- A ground-breaking new study addressing and theorizing the conjunction 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
Content:
Chapter 1 The Colony: Its Guilty Secret and Its Accursed Share (pages 25–54): Achille Mbembe
Chapter 2 Vanishing Points: Law, Violence, and Exception in the Global War Prison (pages 55–98): Derek Gregory
Chapter 3 The White Fear Factor (pages 99–112): Vron Ware
Chapter 4 Sacrificial Militancy and the Wars around Terror (pages 113–140): Alex Houen
Chapter 5 Postcolonial Writing and Terror (pages 141–150): Elleke Boehmer
Chapter 6 Revolutionary Terrorism in British Bengal (pages 151–176): Peter Heehs
Chapter 7 Excavating Histories of Terror: Thugs, Sovereignty, and the Colonial Sublime (pages 177–201): Alex Tickell
Chapter 8 Terrorism, Literature, and Sedition in Colonial India (pages 202–225): Stephen Morton
Chapter 9 Israel in the US Empire (pages 226–253): Bashir Abu?Manneh
Chapter 10 The Poetics of State Terror in Twenty?First?Century Zimbabwe (pages 254–272): Ranka Primorac
Chapter 11 The Mediation of “Terror”: Authority, Journalism, and the Stockwell Shooting (pages 273–303): Stuart Price
Chapter 12 Terror Effects (pages 305–328): Robert J. C. Young
Chapter 13 “Gendering” Terror: Representations of the Female “Freedom Fighter” in Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature and Cultural Production (pages 329–344): Neluka Silva
Chapter 14 Terror, Spectacle, and the Secular State in Bombay Cinema (pages 345–360): Sujala Singh
Chapter 15 “The Age of Reason was over … An Age of Fury was Dawning”: Contemporary Fiction and Terror (pages 361–369): Robert Eaglestone
Chapter 16 Bodies of Terror: Performer and Witness (pages 370–380): Emma Brodzinski
