States of Emergency
Colonialism, Literature and Law
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
249 pages
|
6 x 9
|
© 2013
States of Emergency examines how violent anticolonial struggles and the legal, military, and political techniques employed by colonial governments to contain them have been imagined in both literary and legal narratives. Through a series of case studies, Stephen Morton considers how colonial states of emergency have been defined and represented in the contexts of Ireland, India, South Africa, Algeria, Kenya, and Israel- Palestine, concluding with a compelling assessment of the continuities between colonial states of emergency and the war on terror in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
Stephen Howe, University of Bristol
“An impressive book on a fascinating and important subject.”
Contents
A Note on Translations
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I
1. Sovereignty, Sacrifice and States of Emergency in Colonial Ireland
2. Terrorism, Literature and Sedition in Colonial India
Part II
3. States of Emergency, the Apartheid Legal Order and the Tradition of the Oppressed in South African Fiction
4. Torture, Indefinite Detention and the Colonial State of Emergency in Kenya
5. Narratives of Torture and Trauma in Algeria’s Colonial State of Exception
Part III
6. The Palestinian Tradition of the Oppressed and the Colonial Genealogy of Israel’s State of Exception
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
For more information, or to order this book, please visit http://www.press.uchicago.edu
Google preview here
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
You may purchase this title at these fine bookstores. Outside the USA, see our international sales information.
