Insurgent Cultures - World Literatures and Violence From the Global South

"Moving beyond the normative frames of terrorism and counter-terrorism, this book shows how world literatures from the Global South can be used to examine the multiple modalities of violence that pervade contemporary world politics, such as communalism, factionalism, peasant wars, banditry, nationalist struggles, resource wars and acts of vengeance"--

List of contents

Introduction: towards post-terrorism?; 1. Precarious riches: oil, insurgency, and violence in nigerian literature; 2. Intimate violence: rebels, heroes, and insurgent sovereignties in burmese anglophone literature; 3. Violent solidarities: narrating the maoist insurgency in India; 4. Violent worlds: vernacular agency in middle eastern literature; Epilogue: the moral burden of the insurgent.

About the author

Pavan Malreddy teaches English Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is the author of Orientalism, Terrorism, Indigenism (2015) and co-editor of volumes: Narratives of War on Terror (2020),Writing Brexit (2022), Violence in South Asia (2020) Reworking Postcolonialism (2016). He co-edits Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium.

Summary

Moving beyond the normative frames of terrorism and counter-terrorism, this book shows how world literatures from the Global South can be used to examine the multiple modalities of violence that pervade contemporary world politics, such as communalism, factionalism, peasant wars, banditry, nationalist struggles, resource wars and acts of vengeance.

Product details

• Authors: Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Pavan Kumar (Goethe-Universitat Frankfur Malreddy, Pavan Kumar (Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt Am Main) Malreddy, Malreddy Pavan Kumar
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2024
• EAN: 9781009443838
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0944383-8
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Nigeria, Asia, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Middle East, Developing Countries, Literary studies: general, Violence in society, Literary theory, Violence and abuse in society, Global South / Developing countries