Terror and the postcolonial

Material type: TextTextPublication details: UK Wiley-Blackwell 2010Description: 395pISBN: 9781405191548Contained works: Boehmer, Elleke, ed | Morton, Stephen, edSubject(s): Commonwealth literature-History and criticism | Terrorism in literature | Postcolonialism | Terrorism-Social aspectsDDC classification: 820.9 Summary: 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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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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