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

• 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-> MortonStephen <1972->
• 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
• Serie: Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture.