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Terror and the Postcolonial is a major new comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture.
List of contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Terror and the Postcolonial 1
Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton
Part I Theories of Colonial and Postcolonial Terror 25
1 The Colony: Its Guilty Secret and Its Accursed Share 27
Achille Mbembe
2 Vanishing Points: Law, Violence, and Exception in the Global War Prison 55
Derek Gregory
3 The White Fear Factor 99
Vron Ware
4 Sacrificial Militancy and the Wars around Terror 113
Alex Houen
5 Postcolonial Writing and Terror 141
Elleke Boehmer
Part II Histories of Post/colonial Terror 151
6 Revolutionary Terrorism in British Bengal 153
Peter Heehs
7 Excavating Histories of Terror: Thugs, Sovereignty, and the Colonial Sublime 177
Alex Tickell
8 Terrorism, Literature, and Sedition in Colonial India 202
Stephen Morton
9 Israel in the US Empire 226
Bashir Abu-Manneh
10 The Poetics of State Terror in Twenty-first-century Zimbabwe 254
Ranka Primorac
11 The Mediation of "Terror": Authority, Journalism, and the Stockwell Shooting 273
Stuart Price
Part III Genres of Terror 305
12 Terror Effects 307
Robert J. C. Young
13 "Gendering" Terror: Representations of the Female "Freedom Fighter" in Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature and Cultural Production 329
Neluka Silva
14 Terror, Spectacle, and the Secular State in Bombay Cinema 345
Sujala Singh
15 "The age of reason was over . . . an age of fury was dawning": Contemporary Fiction and Terror 361
Robert Eaglestone
16 Bodies of Terror: Performer and Witness 370
Emma Brodzinski
Index 381
About the author
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 has published over twenty 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),
Networks of Empire (2015) and
The Shouting in the Dark (2015), her fifth novel.
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).
Summary
Terror and the Postcolonial is a major comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture.
Report
"Addressing issues ranging across race, gender, history, literature and militancy, [it examines] at times contentious and confronting perspectives of the world in which we live, how global terrorism and fear came into being, and the possible triggers for the ongoing confrontations challenging global unity ... The text is not too dry or overburdened with longwinded narrative, but is thought provoking and image-shattering. Terror and the Postcolonial will take the wind out of the sails of anyone who believes we live in a world where terrorism is the sole property of extremists, religious zealots and bigots." M/C Journal
