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Record Nr.

UNINA9910139381903321

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

Electronic books.

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