Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 396 Seiten)
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24 Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780226739496
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface: Politics and Scholarship in a Time of Pandemic -- Introduction: “Islam,” Terrorism, and the Epidemic Imaginary -- Part I. The disease poetics of empire -- 1. Great Games -- 2. The Blue Plague -- 3. Circulatory Logic -- Part II. The body allegorical in french Algeria -- 4. The Brown Plague -- 5. Algeria Ungowned -- Part III. Viral diaspora and global security -- 6. Selfi stan -- 7. Cures from Within -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Content:
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 neoimperial 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 anticolonial rebellion, and Muslim insurgency specifically, as a virulent form of social contagion. Exposing the long history of this broken but persistent narrative, Epidemic Empire is a major contribution to the rhetorical history of our present moment
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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In English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Raza Kolb, Anjuli Fatima Epidemic empire Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021 ISBN 9780226739359
Additional Edition:
ISBN 022673935X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226739212
Language:
English
Keywords:
Terrorismus
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Geschichte 1817-2020
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Literatur
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Terrorismus
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Krankheit
;
Geschichte
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Sepoy-Aufstand
DOI:
10.7208/9780226739496
