Towards Post-Terrorism: Necro-Nationalism and Cultures of Violence in Insurgency Literature

这项研究调查了当代关于恐怖主义的言论与印度、尼日利亚和缅甸的叛乱暴力令人不安地混为一谈，这些国家是后殖民世界一些持续时间最长的武装冲突的发源地。它抓住了9/11袭击后叛乱文学-小说、自传、报告文学叙事-的多产成果。这项研究的主要贡献在于，它及时建立了关于叛乱文学的初步比较批评体系，同时确定了其历史轨迹的主题转变：从将武装冲突作为国家和革命者之间相互竞争的意识形态的产物的二分法，到对广泛的政治行为者中暴力的扩散和被剥夺权利的性质的更微妙的描述。相应地，这项研究通过一系列概念提出了另一种框架，即死亡民族主义和暴力文化，这些概念有助于强调印度、尼日利亚和缅甸长期的冲突如何导致暴力成为国家当局、私营军队和叛乱团体之间的一种规范性文化做法。因此，这项研究中建议的后恐怖主义行动的灵感来自于同样的伦理约束，因为它在理论上承诺记录弥漫在当代世界政治中的多种暴力形式。考虑到该项目设在德国，它具有战略优势，可以借鉴和回应德国文学研究(Germanistik And Komparatistik)、大屠杀研究和记忆研究中关于暴力的辩论。

This research investigates the uneasy conflation of contemporary discourses on terrorism with the insurgency violence in India, Nigeria and Burma, which are home for some of the longest-running armed conflicts in the postcolonial world. It seizes upon the prolific output of insurgency literature - novels, autobiographies, reportage narratives - in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. A major contribution of this research lies with its timely construction of a preliminary body of comparative criticism on insurgency literature, while identifying a thematic shift in its historical trajectory: from the dichotomous configuration of armed conflicts as the products of competing ideologies between the state and revolutionaries, to a more nuanced account of the diffused and disenfranchised nature of violence among a wide spectrum of political actors. Correspondingly, this research proposes an alternative framework through a subset of concepts, namely necro-nationalism and cultures of violence, that help underscore how the longue durée of conflicts in India, Nigeria and Burma have led to the construction of violence as a normative cultural practice among state authorities, private armies and insurgency groups. Hence, the suggested move towards post-terrorism in this research is inspired by the same ethical bind as its theoretical commitment to register the multiple modalities of violence that pervade contemporary world politics. Considering the fact that this project is based in Germany, it holds a strategic advantage to draw upon, and respond to, the debates on violence in the German literary studies (Germanistik und Komparatistik), Holocaust Studies, and Memory Studies.