Tickell, Alex
(2012).
Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Fiction, 1830-1947.
Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures.
London: Routledge .
Abstract
This monograph examines the politics of fear and legal exception in the literature and journalism of colonial India. Covering key crisis-moments in colonial history (the Calcutta Black Hole; the anti-thuggee campaign of the 1830s, the 1857 Mutiny; Indian Revolutionary Nationalism in Edwardian London and the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre) it centres on the discursive negotation of terror and anti-colonial violence in colonial fiction and writing by Indian authors working in English. Theoretically, the monograph applies recent work on sovereignty and legal exception by Giorgio Agamben, backdating his ideas in a study of the 'authoritarian liberal' politics of colonial rule under extreme threat.
| Item Type: |
Authored Book
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| Copyright Holders: |
2012 Taylor & Francis |
| ISBN: |
1-4051-9154-6, 978-1-4051-9154-8 |
| Funders: |
Arts and Humanities Research Council; University of Portsmouth |
| Keywords: |
terrorism; insurgency; colonialism; India; liberalism; sovereignty; exception; Indian-English fiction; Philip Meadows Taylor; Rudyard Kipling; E. M. Forster; Shoshee Chunder Dutt; Hurrish Chunder Mookerji; S.M. Mitra; Edmund Candler; S.K. Ghosh; Mahatma Gandhi; Mulk Raj Anand |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Arts > English |
| Item ID: |
28770 |
| Depositing User: |
Alex Tickell
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| Date Deposited: |
28 Jun 2011 08:26 |
| Last Modified: |
23 Oct 2012 14:19 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/28770 |
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