This book examines imperial and nationalist discourses surrounding three contemporaneous and unsuccessful mid-nineteenth-century colonial uprisings against the British Empire. Ranging across late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary and visual texts about or inspired by the Sepoy Rebellion (1857) in India, the Morant Bay Rebellion (1865) in Jamaica, and the Fenian Rebellion (1867) in Ireland, this book charts the use of these rebellions as flashpoints for the varying yet parallel attempts by imperialist colonialists, nationalists, and socialists to transform the oppressed colonized worker (the subjected laborer) into one whose identity is created and limited by labor (a laboring subject), as well as varying modes of resistance to those attempts in the three colonies and later nation-states. The book then moves to the late-twentieth century postcolonial nation-state in India, Jamaica, and Ireland to show how the figure of woman, occluded from both colonialist and nationalist discourses on the rebellions, is repurposed within the neo-liberal postcolonial state as the consummate re-productive laboring subject.
- ISBN: 978-3-319-57662-6
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2017
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés