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Aftermath / Preti Taneja.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taneja, Preti, author.
- 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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