Terror and the Postcolonial
A Concise Companion
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
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
| ISBN: | 9781119056195 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Herausgeber: | Boehmer Elleke Morton Stephen |
| Verlag: | Wiley |
| Veröffentlicht: | 24.07.2015 |
| Untertitel: | A Concise Companion |
| Schlagworte: | Literature Literaturwissenschaft Postcolonial Theory Postkolonialismus Theorie der Postkolonialzeit |
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