Insurgent Cultures: World Literatures and Violence from the Global South

Cover
Half-title
Title page
Imprints page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward Post-Terrorism?
	Mythic Violence and Enchanted Solidarity
	Splintered Violence and Disenchanted Solidarity
	Unframing the Insurgent: Violence at the Limits of Literary Criticism
	Narrating Insurgency: World, Periphery, and the Vernacular
	Plan of the Book
	Notes
Chapter 1 Precarious Riches: Oil, Insurgency, and Violence in Nigerian Literature
	The Violent Precariat
	Absent Presences in Michael Peel’s A Swamp Full of Dollars
	Present Absences in Helon Habila’s Oil on Water
	Subterranean Violence: Present Absences of Oil Unrest in Tony Nwaka’s Lords of the Creek
	Oil, Oil Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Fry: Routine Violence in Christie Watson’s Tiny Sunbirds Far Away
	Notes
Chapter 2 Intimate Violence: Rebels, Heroes, and Insurgent Sovereignties in Burmese Anglophone Literature
	The Elusive Terrorist: Tropes, Figures, and the Intimacy of Violence
	Intimacy and Militancy in From the Land of Green Ghosts and Road to Rangoon
	Intimate Sovereignty? Affective In/Justice in Wendy Law-Yone’s Irrawaddy Tango
	From Intimate Violence to Insurgent Sovereignty: Aung San Suu Kyi’s Freedom from Fear and Pascal Khoo Thwe’s From the Land of Green Ghosts
	Notes
Chapter 3 Violent Solidarities: Narrating the Maoist Insurgency in India
	Solidarity, Sovereignty, and Divine Violence in Three Naxalite Novels
	(Dis)enchanted Solidarity and Useless Suffering
	Divine Violence and Useful Suffering
	Affects, Justice, and Solidarities in Arundhati Roy’s Walking with the Comrades and Sudeep Chakravarti’s Red Sun: Travels in a Naxalite Country
	Notes
Chapter 4 Violent Worlds: Vernacular Agency in Middle Eastern Literature
	Of the Sublime, Divine, Secular, and the Vernacular
	Violence and the Vernacular
	Ennobling the Dead: Thanatopolitics in The Corpse Washer
	Globe versus World: Necropolitics and Thanatopolitics in The City Always Wins
	Notes
Epilogue: The Moral Burden of the Insurgent
	Notes
Index