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200 00$aTerror and the postcolonial$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton
210   $aChichester, U.K. ;$aMalden, MA $cWiley-Blackwell$d2010
215   $a1 online resource (409 p.)
225 1 $aBlackwell concise companions to literature and culture
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-119-05619-5 
311   $a1-4051-9154-6 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aTerror 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
327   $a8 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
327   $a16 Bodies of Terror: Performer and WitnessIndex
330   $aTerror and the Postcolonial is a major new comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture. A ground-breaking new study addressing and theorizing the conjunction between postcolonial studies, colonial history, and terrorism through a series of contemporary and historical case studies from various postcolonial contextsCritically analyzes the figuration of terrorism in a variety of postcolonial literary texts from South Asia, Africa, and the Middle EastRaises the subject of terror as both an expression of globalization
410  0$aBlackwell concise companions to literature and culture.
606   $aCommonwealth literature (English)$xHistory and criticism
606   $aTerrorism in literature
606   $aColonies in literature
606   $aPostcolonialism in literature
606   $aPostcolonialism
606   $aTerrorism$xSocial aspects$zCommonwealth countries
615  0$aCommonwealth literature (English)$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aTerrorism in literature.
615  0$aColonies in literature.
615  0$aPostcolonialism in literature.
615  0$aPostcolonialism.
615  0$aTerrorism$xSocial aspects
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701   $aBoehmer$b Elleke$f1961-$0482234
701   $aMorton$b Stephen$f1972-$0322327
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