Terror and the Postcolonial

Terror and the Postcolonial is a major new comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture.  A ground-breaking new study addressing and theorizing the conjunction 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 Content: Chapter 1 The Colony: Its Guilty Secret and Its Accursed Share (pages 25–54): Achille MbembeChapter 2 Vanishing Points: Law, Violence, and Exception in the Global War Prison (pages 55–98): Derek GregoryChapter 3 The White Fear Factor (pages 99–112): Vron WareChapter 4 Sacrificial Militancy and the Wars around Terror (pages 113–140): Alex HouenChapter 5 Postcolonial Writing and Terror (pages 141–150): Elleke BoehmerChapter 6 Revolutionary Terrorism in British Bengal (pages 151–176): Peter HeehsChapter 7 Excavating Histories of Terror: Thugs, Sovereignty, and the Colonial Sublime (pages 177–201): Alex TickellChapter 8 Terrorism, Literature, and Sedition in Colonial India (pages 202–225): Stephen MortonChapter 9 Israel in the US Empire (pages 226–253): Bashir Abu?MannehChapter 10 The Poetics of State Terror in Twenty?First?Century Zimbabwe (pages 254–272): Ranka PrimoracChapter 11 The Mediation of “Terror”: Authority, Journalism, and the Stockwell Shooting (pages 273–303): Stuart PriceChapter 12 Terror Effects (pages 305–328): Robert J. C. YoungChapter 13 “Gendering” Terror: Representations of the Female “Freedom Fighter” in Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature and Cultural Production (pages 329–344): Neluka SilvaChapter 14 Terror, Spectacle, and the Secular State in Bombay Cinema (pages 345–360): Sujala SinghChapter 15 “The Age of Reason was over … An Age of Fury was Dawning”: Contemporary Fiction and Terror (pages 361–369): Robert EaglestoneChapter 16 Bodies of Terror: Performer and Witness (pages 370–380): Emma Brodzinski