{"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 D az, and Roberto Bola o, 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":52722384503117,"sku":"9780520295377","price":178.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/ekdTdTEzWFBldDBNQXFEQ1ZLNXpIQT09.webp?v=1762483927","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/security-and-terror-american-culture-and-the-long-history-of-colonial-modernity-hardcover","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}