States of Emergency: Colonialism, Literature and Law (Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines LUP)

"How can literature and culture from the postcolonial world help us to understand the relationship between law and violence associated with a state of emergency? And what light can legal narratives of emergency shed on postcolonial writing? States of Emergency: Colonialism, Literature and Law 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 considers how techniques of sovereignty, law and violence are reconfigured in the colonial present"--provided by publisher How Can Literature And Culture From The Postcolonial World Help Us Understand The Relationship Between Law And Violence In Emergencies? This Book Examines How Violent Anti-colonial Struggles And The Legal, Military And Political Techniques Employed By Colonial Governments To Contain Them Have Been Imagined. Sovereignty, Sacrifice And States Of Emergency In Colonial Ireland -- Terrorism, Literature And Sedition In Colonial India -- States Of Emergency, The Apartheid Legal Order And The Tradition Of The Oppressed In South African Fiction -- Torture, Indefinite Detention And The Colonial State Of Emergency In Kenya -- Narratives Of Torture And Trauma In Algeria's Colonial State Of Exception -- The Palestinian Tradition Of The Oppressed And The Colonial Genealogy Of Israel's State Of Exception. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 225-239) And Index. Cover 1 Half-title 2 Title page 4 Copyright page 5 Contents 6 A Note on Translations 7 Acknowledgements 8 Introduction 10 Part 1 42 1 Sovereignty, Sacrifice and States of Emergency in Colonial Ireland 44 2 Terrorism, Literature and Sedition in Colonial India 70 Part 2 96 3 States of Emergency, the Apartheid Legal Order and the Tradition of the Oppressed in South African Fiction 98 4 Torture, Indefinite Detention and the Colonial State of Emergency in Kenya 128 5 Narratives of Torture and Trauma in Algeria’s Colonial State of Exception 155 Part 3 180 6 The Palestinian Tradition of the Oppressed and the Colonial Genealogy of Israel’s State of Exception 182 Conclusion 218 Bibliography 234 Index 249 This book examines how violent anti-colonial struggles and the legal, military and political techniques used by colonial governments to contain them have been imagined in literature and law. Case studies examined include Ireland, India, South Africa, Algeria, Kenya, Israel-Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan.