Terror and the Postcolonial

Herausgeber: Boehmer, Elleke; Morton, Stephen

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Produktbeschreibung

Terror and the Postcolonial is a major new comparative study of terrorism and its representations in colonial history and postcolonial theory, literature and culture. Through a series of thematically-linked, original chapters, the volume critically analyzes the figuration of terrorism in a range of colonial and postcolonial literary texts from South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The chapters also consider a variety of controversial political events such as the London shooting of Brazilian national Jean Charles de Menezes and the treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. In doing so, this ground-breaking study questions, complicates, and, above all, historicizes the deep divisions between Western and non-Western cultures and their writings, and also their legacies of conquest, that underpin the contemporary rhetoric of terrorism. At the same time, the collection investigates the widely disparate value systems which are held to reinforce the recourse to "terror" in global literature and culture. With fine theoretical sophistication, Terror and the Postcolonial offers provocative new insights that will broaden our understanding of global terrorism today as well as of the cultural and literary responses to terrorism that have emerged throughout the postcolonial world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 165mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 762g
• ISBN-13: 9781405191548
• ISBN-10: 1405191546
• Artikelnr.: 27010447

Autorenporträt

Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literatures in English at the University of Oxford, well known for her research in international writing and postcolonial theory, she is the author of eight books, among them Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors (1995, 2005), Empire, the National and the Postcolonial (2002), Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction (2008), and Nile Baby (2008). Stephen Morton is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton. He is currently completing a study of colonial states of emergency in literature and law, 1905¿2005, and is the author of several books and articles on postcolonial literature and thought, including Salman Rushdie: Fictions of Postcolonial Modernity (2007) and Gayatri Spivak: Ethics, Subalternity and the Critique of Postcolonial Reason (2006). CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME: Bashir Abu-Manneh, Elleke Boehmer, Emma Brodzinski, Robert Eaglestone, Derek Gregory, Peter Heehs, Alex Houen, Achille Mbembe, Stephen Morton, Stuart Price, Ranka Primorac, Neluka Silva, Sujala Singh, Alex Tickell, Vron Ware, Robert J. C. Young

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Terror and the Postcolonial (Elleke Boehmer and Stephen
Morton, University of Oxford and University of Southampton).
Part I: Theories of Colonial and Postcolonial Terror:
1. The Colony: Its Guilty Secret and Its Accursed Share (Achille Mbembe,
University of Wiwatersrand).
2. Vanishing Points: Law, Violence, and Exception in the Global War Prison
(Derek Gregory, University of British Columbia).
3. The White Fear Factor (Vron Ware, Open University).
4. Sacrificial Militancy and the Wars around Terror (Alex Houen, University
of Sheffield).
5. Postcolonial Writing and Terror (Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford).
Part II: Histories of Post/colonial Terror:
6. Revolutionary Terrorism in British Bengal (Peter Heehs, Independent
Scholar).
7. Excavating Histories of Terror: Thugs, Sovereignty, and the Colonial
Sublime (Alex Tickell, University of Portsmouth).
8. Terrorism, Literature, and Sedition in Colonial India (Stephen Morton,
University of Southampton).
9. Israel in the US Empire (Bashir Abu-Manneh, Barnard College).
10. The Poetics of State Terror in Twenty-first-century Zimbabwe (Ranka
Primorac, University of Southampton).
11. The Mediation of "Terror": Authority, Journalism, and the Stockwell
Shooting (Stuart Price, De Montfort University).
Part III: Genres of Terror:
12. Terror Effects (Robert J. C. Young, New York University).
13. "Gendering" Terror: Representations of the Female "Freedom Fighter" in
Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature and Cultural Production (Neluka Silva,
University of Colombo).
14. Terror, Spectacle, and the Secular State in Bombay Cinema (Sujala
Singh, University of Southampton).
15. "The age of reason was over . . . an age of fury was dawning":
Contemporary Fiction and Terror (Robert Eaglestone. University of London).
16. Bodies of Terror: Performer and Witness (Emma Brodzinski, University of
London).
Index.

Rezensionen

"This is a book written by academics but is perfectly suitable forthe average reader. The text is not too dry or overburdenedwith longwinded narrative, but is thought provoking andimage-shattering. Terror and the Postcolonial willtake the wind out of the sails of anyone who believes we live in aworld where terrorism is the sole property of extremists, religiouszealots and bigots. Terrorism has been around for much longerthan since 9/11 and it is about time someone had the courage toadmit our part in it." (M/C Reviews, November 2010)