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Terrorism, orientalism and imperialism

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
0269-0055
36-42
Morton, Stephen
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Morton, Stephen
3200c49e-fcfa-4088-9168-1d6998266ec1

Morton, Stephen (2007) Terrorism, orientalism and imperialism. Wasafiri, 22 (2), 36-42. (doi:10.1080/02690050701336774).

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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
Keywords: war on terrorism, orientalism, Edward Said, imperialism, postcolonial theory

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Local EPrints ID: 66090
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/66090
DOI: doi:10.1080/02690050701336774
ISSN: 0269-0055
PURE UUID: f4b801d6-a109-4122-9dd2-a96c46f084b3
ORCID for Stephen Morton: ORCID iD orcid.org/0009-0009-5294-5640

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Date deposited: 28 Apr 2009
Last modified: 27 Jul 2024 01:39

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