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DISAFFECTED EMOTION SEDITION AND COLONIAL LAW IN THE ANGLOSPHERE
Author: TANYA AGATHOCLEOUS
ISBN: 9788195480616
Binding: Hard Cover
Publishing Year: 2021
Publisher: JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY PRESS
Number of Pages: 211
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INR 1000.00
About Book
Disaffected examines the effects of antisedition law on the overlapping public spheres of India and Britain under empire. After 1857, the British government began censoring the press in India, culminating in 1870 with the passage of Section 124a, a law that used the term “disaffection” to target the emotional tenor of writing deemed threatening to imperial rule. As a result, Tanya Agathocleous shows, Indian journalists adopted modes of writing that appeared to mimic properly British styles of prose even as they wrote against empire. Agathocleous argues that Section 124a, which is still used to quell political dissent in present-day India, both irrevocably shaped conversations and critiques in the colonial public sphere and continues to influence anticolonialism and postcolonial relationships between the state and the public. Disaffected draws out the coercive and emotional subtexts of law, literature, and cultural relationships, demonstrating how the criminalization of political alienation and dissent has shaped literary form and the political imagination. Disaffected won the North American Victorian Studies Association Award for Best Book of 2021 and was shortlisted for the 2021 Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Colby Scholarly Book Prize.
About Author
Tanya Agathocleous is Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she teaches and researches nineteenth and early twentieth-century Anglophone literature and culture in colonial, postcolonial and transnational contexts. The US edition of Disaffected: Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere was published by Cornell University Press in 2021. Other works include Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination (Cambridge, 2011), Teaching Literature: A Companion (Palgrave, 2003); the Broadview edition of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent. She has also written for literary reviews such as Public Books and the Los Angeles Review of Books .
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