Imagined States : : Law and Literature in Nigeria 1900-1966 / / Katherine Isobel Baxter.
Examines representations of the law in colonial and postcolonial fiction from and about NigeriaExamines representations of the law in British and Nigerian high-brow, middle-brow and popular fiction and journalism between 1900 and 1966Draws on rare archives of Nigerian newspaper reports and local gov...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- Index