Security and terror : American culture and the long history of colonial modernity / Eli Jelly-Schapiro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jelly-Schapiro, Eli, Author.

Series:

California scholarship online.

California scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism.

International relations and terrorism--United States.

International relations and terrorism.

National security--United States.

National security.

Terrorism--United States.

Terrorism.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in literature.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

When in 1492 Christopher Columbus set out for Asia but instead happened upon the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola, his error inaugurated a specifically colonial modernity. This is, Security and Terror contends, the colonial modernity within which we still live. And its enduring features are especially vivid in the current American century, a moment marked by a permanent War on Terror and pervasive capitalist dispossession. Resisting the assumption that September 11, 2001, constituted a historical rupture, Eli Jelly-Schapiro traces the political and philosophic genealogies of security and terror-from the settler-colonization of the New World to the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond. A history of the present crisis, Security and Terror also examines how that history has been registered and reckoned with in significant works of contemporary fiction and theory-in novels by Teju Cole, Mohsin Hamid, Junot Díaz, and Roberto Bolaño, and in the critical interventions of Jean Baudrillard, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, and others. In this richly interdisciplinary inquiry, Jelly-Schapiro reveals how the erasure of colonial pasts enables the perpetual reproduction of colonial culture.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: History, Narrative, and the War on Terror

1. "All the World Was America": The Long History of Homeland Security

2. "A General Principle of Democracy": Terror and Colonial Modernity

3. "Choc en Retour": Security, Terror, Theory

4. "Vanishing Points": Postcolonial America

5. "This Is Our Threnody": Writing History as Catastrophe

Epilogue: Rupture and Colonial Modernity

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780520968158

0520968158

OCLC:

1019844731