Terror and the Postcolonial A Concise

Terror and the Postcolonial is a major new comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture. A ground-breaking new study addressing and theorizing the conjunction 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

Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literatures in English at the University of Oxford. Best known for her research in international writing and postcolonial theory, she is the author of several books, including 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 working on 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 Rushdie: Fictions of Postcolonial Modernity (2007) and Gayatri Spivak: Ethics, Subalternity and the Critique of Postcolonial Reason (2006).

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Terror and the Postcolonial	p. 1
Theories of Colonial and Postcolonial Terror	p. 25
The Colony: Its Guilty Secret and Its Accursed Share	p. 27
Vanishing Points: Law, Violence, and Exception in the Global War Prison	p. 55
The White Fear Factor	p. 99
Sacrificial Militancy and the Wars around Terror	p. 113
Postcolonial Writing and Terror	p. 141
Histories of Post/colonial Terror	p. 151
Revolutionary Terrorism in British Bengal	p. 153
Excavating Histories of Terror: Thugs, Sovereignty, and the Colonial Sublime	p. 177
Terrorism, Literature, and Sedition in Colonial India	p. 202
Israel in the US Empire	p. 226
The Poetics of State Terror in Twenty-first-century Zimbabwe	p. 254
The Mediation of "Terror": Authority, Journalism, and the Stockwell Shooting	p. 273
Genres of Terror	p. 305
Terror Effects	p. 307
"Gendering" Terror: Representations of the Female "Freedom Fighter" in Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature and Cultural Production	p. 329
Terror, Spectacle, and the Secular State in Bombay Cinema	p. 345
"The age of reason was over ... an age of fury was dawning": Contemporary Fiction and Terror	p. 361
Bodies of Terror: Performer and Witness	p. 370
Index	p. 381
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