Contents

pp v-v

A Note on Translations

pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-32

Part I

pp 33-34

1 - Sovereignty, Sacrifice and States of Emergency in Colonial Ireland

pp 35-60

2 - Terrorism, Literature and Sedition in Colonial India

pp 61-86

Part II

pp 87-88

3 - States of Emergency, the Apartheid Legal Order and the Tradition of the Oppressed in South African Fiction

pp 89-118

4 - Torture, Indefinite Detention and the Colonial State of Emergency in Kenya

pp 119-145

5 - Narratives of Torture and Trauma in Algeria's Colonial State of Exception

pp 146-170

Part III

pp 171-172

6 - The Palestinian Tradition of the Oppressed and the Colonial Genealogy of Israel's State of Exception

pp 173-208

Conclusion

pp 209-224

Bibliography

pp 225-239

Index

pp 240-249