Territorial Terrors

Contested Spaces in Colonial and Postcolonial Writing. Edited by Gerhard Stilz.

Our primary notions of home, orientation and the very principle of our spatial existence are threatened by territorial controversies. 'Terror' thus becomes both the passive experience and the active instrument that characterize territorial threats and impositions. 18 contributions approach the wide field of territorial terrors from diverse perspectives. In these investigations, literature (and film) can take the role of a passionate but non-violent public and educational forum through which we may possibly understand and come to terms with contested spaces and their burning questions before they kindle new forms of terror. The volume is structured by the topics: Precarious Homes; National Territories, Colonial Terrors; Submerged in the Metropolis; Metropolitan Spaces Appropriated; The Global and the Local. 332 Seiten, gebunden (ZAA Monograph Series; Band 7/Königshausen & Neumann 2007) leichte Lagerspuren/near mint