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States of Emergency - Colonialism, Literature and Law (Paperback)
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States of Emergency - Colonialism, Literature and Law (Paperback)
Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines, 11
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How can literature and culture from the postcolonial world help us
to understand the relationship between law and violence associated
with a state of emergency? And what light can legal narratives of
emergency shed on postcolonial writing? States of Emergency:
Colonialism, Literature and Law examines how violent anti-colonial
struggles and the legal, military and political techniques employed
by colonial governments to contain them have been imagined in
literature and law. Through a series of case studies, the book
considers how colonial states of exception have been defined and
represented in the contexts of Ireland, India, South Africa,
Algeria, Kenya, and Israel-Palestine, and concludes with an
assessment of the continuities between these colonial states of
emergency and the 'wars on terror' in Iraq, Afghanistan and
Northern Pakistan. By doing so, the book considers how techniques
of sovereignty, law and violence are reconfigured in the colonial
present.
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