{"product_id":"security-and-terror-american-culture-and-the-long-history-of-colonial-modernity-hardcover","title":"Security and Terror: American Culture and the Long History of Colonial Modernity - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEli Jelly-Schapiro\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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, \u003ci\u003eSecurity and Terror\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eSecurity and Terror\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an important, timely, and intellectually dazzling intervention. It combines exhilarating readings of a range of contemporary works of theory, fiction, and film with a combative and beautifully written presentation of the post\/neocolonial conditions from which those materials have sprung. The belligerent, geopolitical unconscious of the era of endless war is anatomized here in all its appalling conceit.--Paul Gilroy, author of \u003ci\u003eDarker than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eSecurity and Terror\u003c\/i\u003e stages a resistance: it refuses to monumentalize the attacks of 9\/11 or to isolate in history the endless war that has followed. In doing so, the book puts forth a countervailing truth. In the shadow of no towers lie the ruins of our colonial past, a history of depredation. A corrective reading, necessary and illuminating.\"--Amitava Kumar, author of \u003ci\u003eA Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In this thoughtful study, Eli Jelly-Schapiro places the War on Terror in relation to the longer history of primitive accumulation, racial capitalism, and state violence that is colonial modernity. A significant contribution.\"--Lisa Lowe, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Intimacies of Four Continents \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEli Jelly-Schapiro\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, where he teaches contemporary literature and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 11, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45761691812037,"sku":"9780520295377","price":184.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/DKOz27w1j59780520295377.webp?v=1781246296","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/security-and-terror-american-culture-and-the-long-history-of-colonial-modernity-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}