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Aftermath / Preti Taneja.

Van Pelt Library HV6431 .T36 2021
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Taneja, Preti, author.
Contributor:
Charles Wendell David Library Fund.
Series:
Undelivered lectures
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Khan, Usman.
Terrorism--England--London.
Terrorism.
Atrocities.
Life change events.
England--London.
Physical Description:
251 pages ; 18 cm.
Place of Publication:
Oakland, California : Transit Books, [2021]
Summary:
A bold and searching lament in the wake of the 2019 London Bridge killings, reckoning with the language of terror, trauma, and grief, and the systemic nature of atrocity.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: I. Radical Doubt
An event happens and
Order, order
Disenfranchised grief
Violence as trauma as form
Metaphors for shame
Before and after
Backstory as event that happens
September comes again
II. Radicalising Thought
Poetry
Theory
Citizenship and politics: a postcolonial story
Citizenship and politics: a postcolonial glossary
Abolition
III. Radical Hope
The single shelf
The point of departure
The prophet
Falling prey
You as the terrorist: you in the room
The prison inside the prison
A singularly talented, wildly imaginative debut novelist
The question of healing
Those who leave, those who stay
Reality hunger as joint enterprise (a killjoy manifesto)
Antigone's lament
In prison, the lack of resources improves one's creativity.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles Wendell David Library Fund.
ISBN:
9781945492549
1945492546
OCLC:
1252412382

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