States of emergency : colonialism, literature and law / Stephen Morton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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 defined and represented in the contexts of Ireland, India, South Africa, Algeria, Kenya, and Israel-Palestine, and concludes with an assessment of the continuities between these colonial states of emergency and the 'wars on terror' in Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan. By doing so, the book c.

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

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