Imagined States
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474420839 (ISBN)
Imagined States examines representations of the law in British and Nigerian high-brow, middle-brow and popular fiction and journalism. Drawing on a rich range of examples, the book focuses on the imaginative role that the state of exception played in the application of indirect rule during British colonialism and in the legal machinations of the postcolonial state. It reads works by Chinua Achebe, Joyce Cary, Cyprian Ekwensi and Edgar Wallace, together with a range of Nigerian market literature and journalism.
Katherine Isobel Baxter is Reader in English Literature at Northumbria University. She is the author of 'Joseph Conrad and the Swan Song of Romance' (2010) and the co-editor of 'The Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts' (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 'Conrad and Language' (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) and 'Joseph Conrad and the Performing Arts' (2009). She is general editor of the journal 'English'.
Introduction: Literature, Imagination and the State of Exception
1. ‘Natural Justice, Equity and Good Conscience’: History, Politics and Law in Nigeria, 1900-1966
2. ‘I Am the Law’: District Commissioner Fiction and the State of Exception
3. ‘Seeking a Legal Form’: Joyce Cary’s Mister Johnson
4. ‘Beast of No Nation’: Bribery, Corruption and Late Colonial Administration in No Longer At Ease
5. ‘Written in the Interest of the People’: Representing the Law in Cyprian Ekwensi and Market Literature
6. ‘Sensational Coverage of a Sensational Trial’: Treason, Journalism and the State
7. Violence and the Law in A Man of the People
Conclusion: Imagined States
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.12.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 450 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781474420839 / 9781474420839 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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