BOEHMER, E
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
Editorial Reviews
Review
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
From the Back Cover
Terror and the Postcolonial is a major comparative study of terrorism and its representations in colonial history and postcolonial theory, literature, and culture. Through a series of thematically-linked, original chapters, the volume critically analyzes the figuration of terrorism in a range of colonial and postcolonial literary texts from South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. It considers a variety of controversial political events such as the London shooting of Brazilian national Jean Charles de Menezes and the treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. In doing so, this groundbreaking study questions, complicates, and, above all, historicizes the deep divisions between Western and non-Western cultures and their writings, and also their legacies of conquest, that underpin the contemporary rhetoric of terrorism. At the same time, the collection investigates the widely disparate value systems that are held to reinforce the recourse to terror in global literature and culture.
With fine theoretical sophistication, Terror and the Postcolonial offers provocative new insights that will broaden our understanding of global terrorism today as well as of the cultural and literary responses to terrorism that have emerged throughout the postcolonial world.
