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Notes on Contributors vii <p>Acknowledgments xi</p> <p>Introduction: Terror and the Postcolonial 1<br /><i>Elleke Boehmer and Stephen Morton</i></p> <p><b>Part I Theories of Colonial and Postcolonial Terror 25</b></p> <p>1 The Colony: Its Guilty Secret and Its Accursed Share 27<br /><i>Achille Mbembe</i></p> <p>2 Vanishing Points: Law, Violence, and Exception in the Global War Prison 55<br /><i>Derek Gregory</i></p> <p>3 The White Fear Factor 99<br /><i>Vron Ware</i></p> <p>4 Sacrificial Militancy and the Wars around Terror 113<br /><i>Alex Houen</i></p> <p>5 Postcolonial Writing and Terror 141<br /><i>Elleke Boehmer</i></p> <p><b>Part II Histories of Post/colonial Terror 151</b></p> <p>6 Revolutionary Terrorism in British Bengal 153<br /><i>Peter Heehs</i></p> <p>7 Excavating Histories of Terror: Thugs, Sovereignty, and the Colonial Sublime 177<br /><i>Alex Tickell</i></p> <p>8 Terrorism, Literature, and Sedition in Colonial India 202<br /><i>Stephen Morton</i></p> <p>9 Israel in the US Empire 226<br /><i>Bashir Abu-Manneh</i></p> <p>10 The Poetics of State Terror in Twenty-first-century Zimbabwe 254<br /><i>Ranka Primorac</i></p> <p>11 The Mediation of “Terror”: Authority, Journalism, and the Stockwell Shooting 273<br /><i>Stuart Price</i></p> <p><b>Part III Genres of Terror 305</b></p> <p>12 Terror Effects 307<br /><i>Robert J. C. Young</i></p> <p>13 “Gendering” Terror: Representations of the Female “Freedom Fighter” in Contemporary Sri Lankan Literature and Cultural Production 329<br /><i>Neluka Silva</i></p> <p>14 Terror, Spectacle, and the Secular State in Bombay Cinema 345<br /><i>Sujala Singh</i></p> <p>15 “The age of reason was over . . . an age of fury was dawning”: Contemporary Fiction and Terror 361<br /><i>Robert Eaglestone</i></p> <p>16 Bodies of Terror: Performer and Witness 370<br /><i>Emma Brodzinski</i></p> <p>Index 381</p>

<p>“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. <i>Terror and the Postcolonial </i>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.” <b>M/C Journal</b></p>

<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, 1905−2005, 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>

<p><i>Terror and the Postcolonial</i> 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.</p> <p>With fine theoretical sophistication, <i>Terror and the Postcolonial</i> 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.</p> <p> </p>

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