Epidemic Empire

"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 this book, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb shows that this trope began in responses to the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and tracks its tenacious hold through to 9/11 and beyond. The result is the first book-length study to approach the global War on Terror from a postcolonial literary studies perspective"--