1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830002803321

Titolo

Terror and the postcolonial [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

1-119-14358-6

1-78268-758-0

1-283-86909-8

1-4443-3159-0

1-4443-1008-9

1-4443-1009-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Collana

Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

BoehmerElleke <1961->

MortonStephen <1972->

Disciplina

809.93358

820.9

Soggetti

Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism

Terrorism in literature

Colonies in literature

Postcolonialism in literature

Postcolonialism

Terrorism - Social aspects - Commonwealth countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Terror and the Postcolonial; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Terror and the Postcolonial; Part I Theories of Colonial and Postcolonial Terror; 1 The Colony: Its Guilty Secret and Its Accursed Share; 2 Vanishing Points: Law, Violence, and Exception in the Global War Prison; 3 The White Fear Factor; 4 Sacrificial Militancy and the Wars around Terror; 5 Postcolonial Writing and Terror; Part II Histories of Post/colonial Terror; 6 Revolutionary Terrorism in British Bengal; 7 Excavating Histories of Terror: Thugs, Sovereignty, and the Colonial Sublime

8 Terrorism, Literature, and Sedition in Colonial India9 Israel in the US



Empire; 10 The Poetics of State Terror in Twenty-first-century Zimbabwe; 11 The Mediation of ""Terror"": Authority, Journalism, and the Stockwell Shooting; Part III Genres of Terror; 12 Terror Effects; 13 ""Gendering"" Terror: Representations of the Female ""Freedom Fighter"" in Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature and Cultural Production; 14 Terror, Spectacle, and the Secular State in Bombay Cinema; 15 ""The age of reason was over . . . an age of fury was dawning"": Contemporary Fiction and Terror

16 Bodies of Terror: Performer and WitnessIndex

Sommario/riassunto

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 contextsCritically analyzes the figuration of terrorism in a variety of postcolonial literary texts from South Asia, Africa, and the Middle EastRaises the subject of terror as both an expression of globalization

2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN0125802

Autore

Ferraz de Paiva, Raphael E.

Titolo

Gold(I,III) Complexes Designed for Selective Targeting and Inhibition of Zinc Finger Proteins / Raphael Enoque Ferraz de Paiva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, : Springer, 2018

Descrizione fisica

XXXIX, 151 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

616.079

540

546

543.65

547.05

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia