Epidemic Empire
Epidemic Empire Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. In Epidemic Empire, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb shows that this trope began in responses to the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and…
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Epidemic Empire
Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. 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. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies.
Anchoring her book are studies of four major writers in the colonial-postcolonial canon: Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Albert Camus, and Salman Rushdie. 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. Across these sources, she reveals the tendency to imagine anticolonial
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