Overview
- Makes an original intervention into the influence of biopolitics on the development of labor in colonial contexts
- Examines the spread of imperial capitalism through the works of the colonized
- Takes a comparative, interdisciplinary approach that will appeal to scholars in literary studies, history, political theory and economics, philosophy, and cultural theory
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book examines imperial and nationalist discourses surrounding three contemporaneous and unsuccessful mid-nineteenth-century colonial uprisings against the British Empire: the Sepoy Rebellion (1857) in India, the Morant Bay Rebellion (1865) in Jamaica, and the Fenian Rebellion (1867) in Ireland. In reading these three mid-century rebellions as flashpoints for the varying yet parallel attempts by imperialist colonialists, nationalists, and socialists to transform the oppressed colonized worker (the subjected laborer) into one whose identity is created and limited by labor (a laboring subject), this book also tracks varying modes of resistance to those attempts in all three colonies. In drawing from a range of historical, literary, and visual sources outside the borders of the Anglophone literary canon, this book contends that these texts not only serve as points of engagements with the rebellions but also constitute an archive of oppression and resistance.
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“This book provides a valuable contribution to the history and literature of anti-colonial rebellion in the nineteenth century and beyond. It is well worth reading for the sheer variety of texts it examines and for the way Reddy showcases the complexity of the ideas and positions within them.” (Mukti Lakhi Mangharam, Victorian Studies, Vol. 61 (4), 2019)
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Book Title: British Empire and the Literature of Rebellion
Book Subtitle: Revolting Bodies, Laboring Subjects
Authors: Sheshalatha Reddy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57663-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57662-6Published: 24 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86219-4Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57663-3Published: 14 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XL, 271
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Asian Literature