Terrorism 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 response 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. Join the Committee on Global Thought for a discussion and Q&A with Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, associate professor of English at the University of Toronto, moderated by CGT Member and Columbia English Professor Joseph Slaughter.
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