Terror and the Postcolonial

Abstract

Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Terror and the Postcolonial (Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton, University of Oxford and University of Southampton). Part I: Theories of Colonial and Postcolonial 1. Colony: Its Guilty Secret and Its Accursed Share (Achille Mbembe, University of Wiwatersrand). 2. Vanishing Points: Law, Violence, and Exception in the Global War Prison (Derek Gregory, University of British Columbia). 3. White Fear Factor (Vron Ware, Open University). 4. Sacrificial Militancy and the Wars around Terror (Alex Houen, University of Sheffield). 5. Postcolonial Writing and Terror (Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford). Part II: Histories of Post/colonial 6. Revolutionary Terrorism in British Bengal (Peter Heehs, Independent Scholar). 7. Excavating Histories of Thugs, Sovereignty, and the Colonial Sublime (Alex Tickell, University of Portsmouth). 8. Terrorism, Literature, and Sedition in Colonial India (Stephen Morton, University of Southampton). 9. Israel in the US Empire (Bashir Abu-Manneh, Barnard College). 10. Poetics of State Terror in Twenty-first-century Zimbabwe (Ranka Primorac, University of Southampton). 11. Mediation of Terror: Authority, Journalism, and the Stockwell Shooting (Stuart Price, De Montfort University). Part III: Genres of 12. Terror Effects (Robert J. C. Young, New York University). 13. Gendering Representations of the Female Freedom Fighter in Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature and Cultural Production (Neluka Silva, University of Colombo). 14. Terror, Spectacle, and the Secular State in Bombay Cinema (Sujala Singh, University of Southampton). 15. The age of reason was over ... an age of fury was dawning: Contemporary Fiction and Terror (Robert Eaglestone. University of London). 16. Bodies of Performer and Witness (Emma Brodzinski, University of London). Index.