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082 _a303.625 RAZ
100 _aRaza Kolb, Anjuli Fatima.
245 _a Epidemic empire
_b: colonialism, contagion, and terror, 1817-2020.
_c/ Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb.
260 _a, Chicago
_b: University of Chicago Press
_c, 2021.
300 _a396 pages
_b: illustrations
_c:24cm.
365 _b2982
505 _a Introduction: "Islam," Terrorism, and the Epidemic Imaginary Part One: The Disease Poetics of Empire Chapter 1: Great Games Chapter 2: The Blue Plague Chapter 3: Circulatory Logic Part Two: The Body Allegorical in French Algeria Chapter 4: The Brown Plague Chapter 5: Algeria Ungowned Part Three: Viral Diaspora and Global Security Chapter 6: Selfistan Chapter 7: Cures from Within
520 _aTerrorism 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.
650 _aImperialism
650 _a Modern Literature.
650 _aPolitical violence
650 _aTerrorism in literature
700 _aAnjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
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