Terror and the Postcolonial : A Concise Companion, Paperback / softback Book

Terror and the Postcolonial : A Concise Companion Paperback / softback

Edited by Elleke (University of Oxford, UK) Boehmer, Stephen (University of Southampton, UK) Morton

Part of the Concise Companions to Literature and Culture series

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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 contextsCritically analyzes the figuration of terrorism in a variety of postcolonial literary texts from South Asia, Africa, and the Middle EastRaises the subject of terror as both an expression of globalization and a postcolonial productFeatures key essays by well-known theorists, such as Robert J.

C. Young, Derek Gregory, and Achille Mbembe, and Vron Ware

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