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Title: | War on terror: on re-reading Dracula and waiting for the barbarians |
Authors: | Asempasah, Rogers |
Keywords: | Stoker Coetzee Dracula War on terror Empire Monsters Barbarians History |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
Publisher: | University of Cape Coast |
Abstract: | Framed by the emerging emphasis in postcolonial studies on terror and narratives of terror, this paper argues that Waiting for Barbarians (1980; hereafter Barbarians) can be read as a counter discourse of resistance to Dracula’s (1898) representation of “war on terror” which revolves around the relationship between empire and its embattled subjects. To demonstrate this the paper examines how Barbarians deconstructs Dracula’s trope of barbarian invasion, resists the techniques of liquidating Dracula, and reimagines Dracula’s the notion of the end of history and the last man. The paper concludes that Dracula and Barbarians offer us radically different conceptualisations of the war on terror and contending visions of the future that cunningly reflect contemporary attitudes since the 9/11 attacks |
Description: | 12p:, ill. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/6576 |
ISSN: | 23105496 |
Appears in Collections: | Department of English |
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