{"product_id":"epidemic-empire-colonialism-contagion-and-terror-18172020-9780226739359","title":"Epidemic Empire: Colonialism  Contagion  and Terror  18172020","description":"\u003cp\u003eTerrorism 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647592849461,"sku":"ByrdShop_022673935X","price":32.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226739359.jpg?v=1781694809","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/epidemic-empire-colonialism-contagion-and-terror-18172020-9780226739359","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}