Preface
Foreword:Dr Francis Deng
Chapter I: Introduction: Narrating the Precariousness of Human Decency
Abdelwahab El-Affendi

Chapter II: Killer Narratives: Collective Nightmares and the Construction of Narrative Communities of Insecurity
Abdelwahab El-Affendi

Chapter III:
Imagining Nationhood, Framing Postcoloniality: Narrativising Nigeria Through the Kinesis Of (Hi)Story
James Tar Tsaaior

Chapter IV:
Sudanese Stories: Narratives of Grievance, Distrust and Fatalism in Recurrent Violence
Alex de Waal

Chapter V:
General Elections and Narratives of Violent Conflict:
The Land Question and Civic Competence in Kenya
Kenneth Inyani Simala

Chapter VI:
The Violence of Security, Lethal Representations, and Hindu Nationalism in India
Dibyesh Anand

Chapter VII:
Memories of Victimhood in Serbia and Croatia from the 1980s to the Disintegration of Yugoslavia
Slobodan G. Markovich

Chapter VIII:
Insecurity, Victimhood, Self and Other: The Case of Israel and Palestine
Ilan Pappe

Chapter IX:
Resistance Narratives: Palestinian Women, Islam and Insecurity
Mari Holt

Chapter X:
State Insecurity and Intergroup Violence: The Case of Modern Iraq
Ali A. Allawi

Chapter XI:
Islamophobia as a Securitisation Narrative: The Exclusionary Logic of Imperial Geopolitics Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

Chapter XII:
Killer Narratives in Western Popular Culture
Anas S. Al-Shaikh-Ali

Concluding Remarks
Authors' Biographies