States of Emergency: Colonialism, Literature and Law

by Stephen Morton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781381143
• ISBN13: 9781781381144
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 10.2"