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Terror and the Postcolonial
Contributor(s): Boehmer, Elleke (Editor), Morton, Stephen (Editor)
ISBN: 1119056195     ISBN-13: 9781119056195
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $53.15  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
Dewey: 820.9
Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.05 lbs) 408 pages
 
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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