Terror and the Postcolonial

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<p><i>Terror and the Postcolonial</i> is a major comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture.</p><ul><li>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</li><li>Critically analyzes the figuration of terrorism in a variety of postcolonial literary texts from South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East</li><li>Raises the subject of terror as both an expression of globalization and a postcolonial product</li><li>Features key essays by well-known theorists, such as Robert J. C. Young, Derek Gregory, and Achille Mbembe, and Vron Ware</li></ul>

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<p><b>Elleke Boehmer</b> is Professor of World Literatures in English at the University of Oxford, well known for her research in international writing and postcolonial theory, she has published over twenty books, among them<i>Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors</i> (1995, 2005),<i>Empire, the National and the Postcolonial</i> (2002),<i>Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction</i> (2008),<i>Networks of Empire</i> (2015) and<i>The Shouting in the Dark</i> (2015), her fifth novel.</p><p><b>Stephen Morton</b> is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton. He is currently completing a study of colonial states of emergency in literature and law, 19052005, and is the author of several books and articles on postcolonial literature and thought, including<i>Salman</i><i>Rushdie: Fictions of Postcolonial Modernity</i> (2007) and<i>Gayatri Spivak: Ethics, Subalternity and the Critique of Postcolonial Reason</i> (2006).</p>

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