1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910482818003321

Autore

Hemmingsen Niels <1513-1600.>

Titolo

Syntagma Institvtionvm Christianarvm, perspicvis assertionibvs ex doctrina Prophetica & Apostolica congestis ..., Autore Nicolao Hemmingio [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Copenhagen, : MatthiƦ Vinitor, 1574

Descrizione fisica

Online resource ([16], 852, [36] s.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HemmingioNicolao

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Det Kongelige Bibliotek / The Royal Library (Copenhagen).

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911019115203321

Titolo

Terror and the postcolonial / / edited by Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9781119143581

1119143586

9781782687580

1782687580

9781283869096

1283869098

9781444331592

1444331590

9781444310085

1444310089

9781444310092

1444310097

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Collana

Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

BoehmerElleke <1961->

MortonStephen <1972->

Disciplina

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