Terrorism, orientalism and imperialism
Terrorism, orientalism and imperialism
This essay argues that there are striking parallels between what Edward Said called orientalism and the dominant discourse of counter-terrorism underpinning the war on terrorism. Beginning with a discussion of the contribution that postcolonial thinkers such as Edward Said, Achille Mbembe, Paul Gilroy and Gayatri Spivak have made to understanding the imperialist determinants of the discourse of terrorism, the essay proceeds to examine how the orientalist stereotype of the anti-colonial insurgent is interrogated in Sahar Khalifeh's novel Wild Thorns and Yasmina Khadra's novel The Attack.
war on terrorism, orientalism, Edward Said, imperialism, postcolonial theory
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Morton, Stephen
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July 2007
Morton, Stephen
3200c49e-fcfa-4088-9168-1d6998266ec1
Abstract
This essay argues that there are striking parallels between what Edward Said called orientalism and the dominant discourse of counter-terrorism underpinning the war on terrorism. Beginning with a discussion of the contribution that postcolonial thinkers such as Edward Said, Achille Mbembe, Paul Gilroy and Gayatri Spivak have made to understanding the imperialist determinants of the discourse of terrorism, the essay proceeds to examine how the orientalist stereotype of the anti-colonial insurgent is interrogated in Sahar Khalifeh's novel Wild Thorns and Yasmina Khadra's novel The Attack.
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Published date: July 2007
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war on terrorism, orientalism, Edward Said, imperialism, postcolonial theory
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/66090
ISSN: 0269-0055
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