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States of emergency : colonialism, literature and law /

States of Emergency 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morton, Stephen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Colección:Postcolonialism across the disciplines ; 11.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; A Note on Translations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1; 1 Sovereignty, Sacrifice and States of Emergency in Colonial Ireland; 2 Terrorism, Literature and Sedition in Colonial India; Part 2; 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 3 
505 8 |a 6 The Palestinian Tradition of the Oppressed and the Colonial Genealogy of Israel's State of ExceptionConclusion; Bibliography; Index 
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