British Empire and the literature of rebellion : revolting bodies, laboring subjects / Sheshalatha Reddy.
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....
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Revolting bodies, laboring subjects
- 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
- Technê/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.