04316nam 2200841Ia 450 991101911520332120200520144314.0978111914358111191435869781782687580178268758097812838690961283869098978144433159214443315909781444310085144431008997814443100921444310097(CKB)2500000000001702(EBL)792642(OCoLC)815647244(SSID)ssj0000354820(PQKBManifestationID)11275388(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000354820(PQKBWorkID)10314547(PQKB)10176232(MiAaPQ)EBC792642(Perlego)1006070(EXLCZ)99250000000000170220090311d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTerror and the postcolonial /edited by Elleke Boehmer and Stephen MortonChichester, U.K. ;Malden, MA Wiley-Blackwell20101 online resource (409 p.)Blackwell concise companions to literature and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.9781119056195 1119056195 9781405191548 1405191546 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Sublime8 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 Terror16 Bodies of Terror: Performer and WitnessIndexTerror 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 globalizationBlackwell concise companions to literature and culture.Commonwealth literature (English)History and criticismTerrorism in literatureColonies in literaturePostcolonialism in literaturePostcolonialismTerrorismSocial aspectsCommonwealth countriesCommonwealth literature (English)History and criticism.Terrorism in literature.Colonies in literature.Postcolonialism in literature.Postcolonialism.TerrorismSocial aspects820.9Boehmer Elleke1961-482234Morton Stephen1972-322327MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911019115203321Terror and the postcolonial4416322UNINA