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This book examines genealogies of contagion in between contagion as microbe and contagion as affect. It analyzes how and why hygiene became authoritative and succeeded in becoming a part of the broader social and cultural vocabulary within the colonialist, anti-colonial, as well as modernist discourses.

• | Author: Srirupa Prasad
• | Publisher: Fisicalbook
• | Publication Date: Sep 20, 2015
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: Unqualified
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 113752071X
• | ISBN-13: 9781137520715