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- Title
Disaffected: Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere.
- Authors
Casey, Rose
- Abstract
Whereas British sedition law banned concrete actions like documented plots to overthrow the government, colonial Indian law prohibited mere dislike of colonial rule, criminalizing feeling to expand sedition's purview. Agathocleous concludes with a rich rhetorical analysis of Mahatma Gandhi's 1922 trial for sedition, which "marked the end of the tactics of evasion and transferred affect from coercive to consensual community" (189). Most convincingly, she demonstrates that sedition law's framing as disaffection shaped print culture and activist tactics: she shows how legal codes shape discursive and aesthetic forms.
- Subjects
SEDITION; EMOTIONS; ANTI-imperialist movements; LEGAL documents; CARIBBEAN literature; RIGHT of asylum; POLITICAL persecution
- Publication
Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 2023, Vol 10, Issue 2, p259
- ISSN
2052-2614
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/pli.2023.11