Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio. On today's episode we have on the

show, Anjuli Fatima Reza Kold, who is the author of Epidemic Empire, to talk about her

work and many other issues. I mean we cover such a wide spectrum of history and thought

in post-colonial thinking and literature and then we touch on the COVID-19 crisis. I mean

this book which is centered around colonialism and imperialism, plagues, was being published

right out of the lockdowns for COVID-19 went into effect so we absolutely discussed that.

We discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict happening right now, or should I say the Israeli

Occupation Slotter of Innocent Palestinian civilians and we just cover a wide swath of material

here. So this is a wonderful conversation with a wonderful guest, really want to have her

back on at some point to talk more. And the links to the book and to her work more broadly

will be in the show notes of this episode and as always RevLeft is 100% listener funded

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further ado let's get into this wonderful conversation. Enjoy.

I'm Angelie Fathina-Raza-Colbe. I'm an associate professor of English at the University

of Toronto where I teach post-colonial literature and theory, women's and gender studies, poetics

and poetry and various other topics, sometimes history of science. And largely all linked to

the history of imperialism and the literatures of imperialism and I'm also a poet and a translator.

I did my PhD at Columbia University and I live in New York City.

Wonderful. Yeah, thank you so much for coming on the show. We're very excited to have you.

And of course today we'll be talking about your wonderful book, Epidemic Empire, Colonialism,

Contagion and Terror, 1817 through 2020 but we'll even go into 2021 in this particular discussion.

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