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States of emergency : colonialism, literature and law /
How can literature and culture from the postcolonial world help us understand the relationship between law and violence in emergencies? This book examines how violent anti-colonial struggles and the legal, military and political techniques employed by colonial governments to contain them have been i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Pres,
2013.
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| Colección: | Postcolonialism across the disciplines ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Sovereignty, sacrifice and states of emergency in colonial Ireland
- Terrorism, literature and sedition in colonial India
- States of emergency, the apartheid legal order and the tradition of the oppressed in South African fiction
- Torture, indefinite detention and the colonial state of emergency in Kenya
- Narratives of torture and trauma in Algeria's colonial state of exception
- The Palestinian tradition of the oppressed and the colonial genealogy of Israel's state of exception.