Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817-2020

Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor...
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Author: Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
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Language: English
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Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817-2020 by Raza Kolb, Anjuli Fatima

Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817-2020

$119.13

Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817-2020

$119.13
Author: Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 02/01/2021
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780226739359


Review Citation(s):
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About the Author
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb is associate professor of English at the University of Toronto.

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