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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Postcolonialism across the disciplines ;
11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 6 The Palestinian Tradition of the Oppressed and the Colonial Genealogy of Israel's State of ExceptionConclusion; Bibliography; Index