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Terror and the Postcolonial (eBook, PDF)

A Concise Companion

Redaktion: Boehmer, Elleke; Morton, Stephen

Beschreibung

Terror and the Postcolonial is a major comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture. * A ground-breaking study addressing and theorizing the relationship between postcolonial studies, colonial history, and terrorism through a series of contemporary and historical case studies from various postcolonial contexts * Critically analyzes the figuration of terrorism in a variety of postcolonial literary texts from South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East * Raises the subject of terror as both an expression of globalization and a postcolonial product * Features key essays by well-known theorists, such as Robert J. C. Young, Derek Gregory, and Achille Mbembe, and Vron Ware

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Autor

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444310092
• Artikelnr.: 38305719

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)