Terror and the Postcolonial
A Concise Companion
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 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, s…
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Weitere Autoren: Morton, Stephen (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-9154-8
- EAN: 9781405191548
- Produktnummer: 5084735
- Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 408 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.2 cm x D2.8 cm 760 g
- Gewicht: 760
- Sonstiges: Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Über den Autor
Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literatures in English at the University of Oxford, well known for her research in international writing and postcolonial theory, she is the author of eight books, among them 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 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 Salman Rushdie: Fictions of Postcolonial Modernity (2007) and Gayatri Spivak: Ethics, Subalternity and the Critique of Postcolonial Reason (2006). CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME: Bashir Abu-Manneh, Elleke Boehmer, Emma Brodzinski, Robert Eaglestone, Derek Gregory, Peter Heehs, Alex Houen, Achille Mbembe, Stephen Morton, Stuart Price, Ranka Primorac, Neluka Silva, Sujala Singh, Alex Tickell, Vron Ware, Robert J. C. Young
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