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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. 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

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism

• Full title: Terror and the Postcolonial
• Subtitle: A Concise Companion
• Author: Elleke Boehmer
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 408
• EAN: 9781405191548
• ISBN: 1405191546
• ID: 04956459
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Weight: 760 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 162 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. October 2009

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