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Security and terror : American culture and the long history of colonial modernity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jelly-Schapiro, Eli (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Subjects:
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in literature.
Terrorism > United States.
National security > United States.
International relations and terrorism > United States.
Imperialism.
2001-2009
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : history, narrative, and the War on Terror
  • "All the world was America" : the long history of Homeland Security
  • "A general principle of democracy" : terror and colonial modernity
  • "Choc en retour" : security, terror, theory
  • "Vanishing points" : postcolonial America
  • "This is our threnody" : writing history as catastrophe
  • Epilogue : rupture and colonial modernity.