LEADER 04316nam 2200841Ia 450 001 9911019115203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781119143581 010 $a1119143586 010 $a9781782687580 010 $a1782687580 010 $a9781283869096 010 $a1283869098 010 $a9781444331592 010 $a1444331590 010 $a9781444310085 010 $a1444310089 010 $a9781444310092 010 $a1444310097 035 $a(CKB)2500000000001702 035 $a(EBL)792642 035 $a(OCoLC)815647244 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000354820 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11275388 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000354820 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10314547 035 $a(PQKB)10176232 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC792642 035 $a(Perlego)1006070 035 $a(EXLCZ)992500000000001702 100 $a20090311d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aTerror and the postcolonial /$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 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781119056195 311 08$a1119056195 311 08$a9781405191548 311 08$a1405191546 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 676 $a820.9 701 $aBoehmer$b Elleke$f1961-$0482234 701 $aMorton$b Stephen$f1972-$0322327 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911019115203321 996 $aTerror and the postcolonial$94416322 997 $aUNINA