Descript |
346 p. |
Note |
Based on a conference held at the University of Oxford, June 17/19, 2010. |
Contents |
Introduction : orientalism and war / Tarak Barkawi and Keith Stanski -- Shocked by war : the non-politics of orientalism / Arjun Chowdhury -- American orientalism at war in Korea and the United States : a hegemony of racism, repression, and amnesia / Bruce Cumings -- Terror, the imperial presidency, and American heroism / Susan Jeffords -- Can the insurgent speak? / Hugh Gusterson -- Colonial wars, postcolonial specters : the anxiety of domination / Qu-nh N. Phaam and Himadeep R. Muppidi -- Orientalism in the machine / Josef Teboho Ansorge -- Dis/ordering the orient : scopic regimes and modern war / Derek Gregory -- Nesting orientalisms at war : World War II and the 'memory war' in Eastern Europe / Maria Mølksoo -- Victimhood as agency : Afghan women's memoirs / Margaret A. Mills -- Fanon's 'Guerre des ondes': resisting the call of orientalism / John Mowitt -- The pleasures of imperialism and the pink elephant : torture, sex, orientalism / Patricia Owens -- Afterword / Patrick Porter. |
ISBN |
9780231703567 (hbk.) |
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