States of Emergency: Colonialism, Literature and Law
- ISBN-10
- 1846318491
- ISBN-13
- 9781846318498
- Series
- States of Emergency
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 249
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Author
- Stephen Morton
Description
States of Emergency examines how violent anticolonial struggles and the legal, military, and political techniques employed by colonial governments to contain them have been imagined in both literary and legal narratives. Through a series of case studies, Stephen Morton considers how colonial states of emergency have been defined and represented in the contexts of Ireland, India, South Africa, Algeria, Kenya, and Israel- Palestine, concluding with a compelling assessment of the continuities between colonial states of emergency and the war on terror in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
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