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States of Emergency
Stephen Morton
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Description for States of Emergency
Paperback. This book examines how violent anti-colonial struggles and the legal, military and political techniques used by colonial governments to contain them have been imagined in literature and law. Case studies examined include Ireland, India, South Africa, Algeria, Kenya, Israel-Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan. Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 171 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781381144
SKU
V9781781381144
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About Stephen Morton
Dr Stephen Morton is Senior Lecturer in English, University of Southampton.
Reviews for States of Emergency
Reviews 'An impressive book on a fascinating and important subject.' Stephen Howe 'Morton briefly reminds the reader of States of Emergency that it is even now, perhaps all the more, and more than a century after the “dynamite novels” that pulped the London literary and political scenery, necessary “to imagine a form of justice beyond the liberal fictions of ... Read more