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Titolo: |
Terror and the postcolonial / / edited by Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton
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Pubblicazione: | Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (409 p.) |
Disciplina: | 820.9 |
Soggetto topico: | Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism |
Terrorism in literature | |
Colonies in literature | |
Postcolonialism in literature | |
Postcolonialism | |
Terrorism - Social aspects - Commonwealth countries | |
Altri autori: |
BoehmerElleke <1961->
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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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Terror and the postcolonial ![]() |
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 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910876735903321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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