TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boehmer, Elleke, ed.
AU  - Morton, Stephen, ed.
TI  - Terror and the postcolonial 
SN  - 9781405191548
U1  - 820.9 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - UK
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Commonwealth literature-History and criticism
KW  - Terrorism in literature
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Terrorism-Social aspects
N2  - 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
ER  -