JOURNAL ARTICLE

Disaffected: Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere.

  • Published In: Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 2023, v. 10, n. 2. P. 259 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Casey, Rose 3 of 3

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. [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. 2023/04, Vol. 10, Issue 2, p259
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Military History and Science
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:2052-2614
  • DOI:10.1017/pli.2023.11
  • Accession Number:163339495
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