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Author:
Reddy, Sheshalatha, author.
Title:
British Empire and the literature of rebellion : revolting bodies, laboring subjects / Sheshalatha Reddy.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xl, 271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject:
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature--History.
Nationalism in literature--History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-262) and index.
Contents:
Conclusion: Embodying resistance. Imperial biopower and biopolitics -- The revolting body and the laboring subject -- Reform, resistance, rebellion, revolution, and failure -- Why rebellion, why now? -- Organization of the book -- 1 Rise of the machines: the state, its subjects, and the Sepoy Rebellion -- Historical background -- TechneĢ‚/ology: plotting, emplotment, and machinations -- The state is war -- The debt trap -- Rage against the machines -- Coda -- 2 Inspiring flesh/fleshing out spirit: bodies, bondage, and the Morant Bay Rebellion -- Historical background -- Gothic hauntings -- Shadows and spirits -- Spirit of the age: Creole nationalism -- Coda -- 3 Cellular structures, boundaries, and networks: tracing the Fenian Rebellion -- Historical background -- Biological as/and commodity cells -- Framing prisions -- Terrorist mutations -- Coda -- Conclusion: Bodies in labor, bodies as revolt -- Feminism and Marxism -- Producing the disposable re/productive women -- Embodying resistance.
ISBN:
9783319576626
3319576623
OCLC:
(OCoLC)981202975
LCCN:
2017940349
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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