Imagined States: Law and Literature in Nigeria 1900-1966

ISBN-13: 9781474420839 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 216 str.

Katherine Isobel Baxter

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Literature, Imagination and the State of Exception; Chapter One: ‘Natural Justice, Equity and Good Conscience’: History, Politics and Law in Nigeria, 1900-1966; Chapter Two: ‘I am the law’: District Commissioner Fiction and the State of Exception; Chapter Three: ‘Seeking a Legal Form’: Joyce Cary’s Mister Johnson; Chapter Four: ‘Beast of No Nation’: Bribery, Corruption, and Late Colonial Administration in No Longer At Ease; Chapter Five: ‘Written in the Interest of the People’: Representing the Law in Cyprian Ekwensi and Market Literature; Chapter Six: ‘Sensational Coverage of a Sensational Trial’: Treason, Journalism and the State; Chapter Seven: Violence and the Law in A Man of the People; Conclusion: Imagined States; Bibliography.