{"product_id":"terror-and-the-postcolonial-isbn-9781119056195","title":"Terror and the Postcolonial","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTerror and the Postcolonial\u003c\/i\u003e is a major comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCritically analyzes the figuration of terrorism in a variety of postcolonial literary texts from South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRaises the subject of terror as both an expression of globalization and a postcolonial product\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures key essays by well-known theorists, such as Robert J. C. Young, Derek Gregory, and Achille Mbembe, and Vron Ware\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e Notes on Contributors vii \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Terror and the Postcolonial 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Theories of Colonial and Postcolonial Terror 25\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Colony: Its Guilty Secret and Its Accursed Share 27\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAchille Mbembe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Vanishing Points: Law, Violence, and Exception in the Global War Prison 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDerek Gregory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The White Fear Factor 99\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVron Ware\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Sacrificial Militancy and the Wars around Terror 113\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlex Houen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Postcolonial Writing and Terror 141\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElleke Boehmer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Histories of Post\/colonial Terror 151\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Revolutionary Terrorism in British Bengal 153\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Heehs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Excavating Histories of Terror: Thugs, Sovereignty, and the Colonial Sublime 177\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlex Tickell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Terrorism, Literature, and Sedition in Colonial India 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Morton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Israel in the US Empire 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBashir Abu-Manneh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Poetics of State Terror in Twenty-first-century Zimbabwe 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRanka Primorac\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Mediation of “Terror”: Authority, Journalism, and the Stockwell Shooting 273\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStuart Price\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Genres of Terror 305\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Terror Effects 307\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert J. C. Young\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 “Gendering” Terror: Representations of the Female “Freedom Fighter” in Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature and Cultural Production 329\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNeluka Silva\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Terror, Spectacle, and the Secular State in Bombay Cinema 345\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSujala Singh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 “The age of reason was over . . . an age of fury was dawning”: Contemporary Fiction and Terror 361\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Eaglestone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Bodies of Terror: Performer and Witness 370\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmma Brodzinski\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 381\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Addressing issues ranging across race, gender, history, literature and militancy, [it examines] at times contentious and confronting perspectives of the world in which we live, how global terrorism and fear came into being, and the possible triggers for the ongoing confrontations challenging global unity … The text is not too dry or overburdened with longwinded narrative, but is thought provoking and image-shattering. \u003ci\u003eTerror and the Postcolonial \u003c\/i\u003ewill take the wind out of the sails of anyone who believes we live in a world where terrorism is the sole property of extremists, religious zealots and bigots.” \u003cb\u003eM\/C Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElleke Boehmer\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of World Literatures in English at the University of Oxford, well known for her research in international writing and postcolonial theory, she has published over twenty books, among them \u003ci\u003eColonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors\u003c\/i\u003e (1995, 2005), \u003ci\u003eEmpire, the National and the Postcolonial\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eNelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), \u003ci\u003eNetworks of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e (2015) and \u003ci\u003eThe Shouting in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), her fifth novel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Morton\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSalman\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRushdie: Fictions of Postcolonial Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and \u003ci\u003eGayatri Spivak: Ethics, Subalternity and the Critique of Postcolonial Reason\u003c\/i\u003e (2006).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTerror and the Postcolonial\u003c\/i\u003e is a major 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. It considers 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 groundbreaking 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 that are held to reinforce the recourse to “terror” in global literature and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith fine theoretical sophistication, \u003ci\u003eTerror and the Postcolonial\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990144827621,"sku":"NP9781119056195","price":55.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119056195.jpg?v=1761786675","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/terror-and-the-postcolonial-isbn-9781119056195","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}