Raza Kolb Anjuli Fatima
Raza Kolb Anjuli Fatima - Epidemic Empire Colonialism Contagion And Terror 1817 - 2020 - Paperback
Raza Kolb Anjuli Fatima - Epidemic Empire Colonialism Contagion And Terror 1817 - 2020 - Paperback
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Description: Terrorism is a cancer an infection an epidemic a plague. For more than a century this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies. In Epidemic Empire Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb shows that this trope began in responses to the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and tracks its tenacious hold through 9/11 and beyond. The result is the first book - length study to approach the global war on terror from a postcolonial literary perspective. Raza Kolb assembles a diverse archive from colonial India imperial Britain French and independent Algeria the postcolonial Islamic diaspora and the neo - imperial United States. Anchoring her book are studies of four major writers in the colonial - postcolonial canon: Rudyard Kipling Bram Stoker Albert Camus and Salman Rushdie. Across these sources she reveals the tendency to imagine anti - colonial rebellion and Muslim fanaticism specifically as a virulent form of social contagion. The metaphor surfaces again and again in old ideas like the decadence of Mughal India the poor hygiene of the Arab quarter and the "failed states" of postcolonialism. Exposing the long history of this broken but persistent narrative Epidemic Empire is a major contribution to the rhetorical history of our present moment.
Title: Epidemic Empire Colonialism Contagion And Terror 1817 - 2020
Author(s): Raza Kolb Anjuli Fatima
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226739359
Pages: 392 Pages
Publication Date: 2/1/2021
Category: Miscellaneous Items
Description: Terrorism is a cancer an infection an epidemic a plague. For more than a century this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies. In Epidemic Empire Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb shows that this trope began in responses to the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and tracks its tenacious hold through 9/11 and beyond. The result is the first book - length study to approach the global war on terror from a postcolonial literary perspective. Raza Kolb assembles a diverse archive from colonial India imperial Britain French and independent Algeria the postcolonial Islamic diaspora and the neo - imperial United States. Anchoring her book are studies of four major writers in the colonial - postcolonial canon: Rudyard Kipling Bram Stoker Albert Camus and Salman Rushdie. Across these sources she reveals the tendency to imagine anti - colonial rebellion and Muslim fanaticism specifically as a virulent form of social contagion. The metaphor surfaces again and again in old ideas like the decadence of Mughal India the poor hygiene of the Arab quarter and the "failed states" of postcolonialism. Exposing the long history of this broken but persistent narrative Epidemic Empire is a major contribution to the rhetorical history of our present moment.
Title: Epidemic Empire Colonialism Contagion And Terror 1817 - 2020
Author(s): Raza Kolb Anjuli Fatima
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226739359
Pages: 392 Pages
Publication Date: 2/1/2021
Category: Miscellaneous Items
